treadle

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Then I get some treadle sewing machines to replace hand-stitching?

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Quick take

a lever that is operated with the foot

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of treadle gathered in one view.

noun

a lever that is operated with the foot

verb

tread over; "the brick maker treadles over clay to pick out the stones"

verb

operate (machinery) by a treadle

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for treadle.

noun

a lever that is operated with the foot

verb

tread over; "the brick maker treadles over clay to pick out the stones"

verb

operate (machinery) by a treadle

Example sentences

Then I get some treadle sewing machines to replace hand-stitching?

As an aside, from the Wikipedia article:> ... using treadles to raise and lower the heddles, which opened the shed in the warp threads.

Here's a patent from 1869, for an over-complicated unicycle with a treadle mechanism instead of pedals on cranks.

Chains can be replaced with belts; some early designs even used treadles instead of pedals, and at least one design drove the wheels with levers, as on a steam locomotive.

Riding into the office yesterday i saw a guy on a scooter that had a treadle as the standing platform which he rocked back and forth eith his feet to propel the scooter..Ugly as sin, dorky, but fascinating and novel and cool all at the same time.