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Peddled vs Heddled - What's the difference?

peddled | heddled |

As verbs the difference between peddled and heddled

is that peddled is (peddle) while heddled is (heddle).

As an adjective heddled is

(of a loom|usually|in combination) that uses heddles.

peddled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (peddle)

    • peddle

    English

    Verb

    (peddl)
  • To sell things, especially door to door.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
  • To sell illegal narcotics.
  • (derogatory, figuratively) To spread or cause to spread.
  • * 2009 , Michael John Beashel, Unshackled (page 166)
    • Christine walked a dangerous line, peddling gossip about her detested son-in-law.
  • * 2012 , Niamh O'Connor, Taken (page 166)
    • Roberts was a drug dealer, nicknamed 'King Krud', who peddled death and misery.
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    • Related terms

    * peddler * peddling

    heddled

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of a loom, usually, in combination) That uses heddles.
  • * 1950 , Observer Annual , page 29,
    • all reproduced in Ananda Coomaraswamy's Medieval Sinhalese Art are ordinary twill weaves which are produced with little effort on a multi-heddled handloom.
  • * 1964 , Robert James Forbes, Studies in Ancient Technology , 5 (1957), page 227,
    • It is difficult to decide with von Stokar, that such twills were woven on a four-heddled loom (6).
  • * 1967 , Jean Verseput Wilson, Weaving is for Anyone , page 15,
    • Necessary and productive as a many-heddled loom is, there is something basic and satisfying about covering each warp thread by hand, in a tapestry or needle technique.
  • * 1986 , Howard L. Needles, S. Haig Zeronian, Historic Textile and Paper Materials: Conservation and Characterization , Advances in Chemistry Series, American Chemical Society, page 271,
    • Once a heddled loom is used, the spiraling encircling action of twining is no longer feasible.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (heddle)