Part of an antique sewing machine

Usage examples of treadle.

The servant who was supposed to be making the fan swing with a treadle noticed Cashel move and began pumping his legs enthusiastically.

He found an armourer who ran the blade up his treadled wheel and afterwards stropped it on his leather apron.

Cavalry troopers queued to have their swords or sabres ground to a killing edge on the treadled stones, while the gunners filled the shot-cases of their field carriages with ready ammunition.

The armourer treadled his wheel, then kissed the blade onto the stone so that sparks flowed like crushed diamonds from the steel.

He oiled the wheel, treadled it, and then put the blade onto the stone so that it rang, it shrieked, and the sparks flowed like live-fire from the steel.

There was a racing-style aluminium footgrip on the treadle, and an alloy hub on the wheel.

Working the treadle was trickier than he expected, but he eventually got the knack.

Villiers and Fred had bicycles, but Trogs and bicycles are as incompatible as humans and the treadle wheels that Durelians roll down their streets in.

Heads bent, mouths fanning straight pins, hem-covered oxfords working unseen treadles, they continued production.

It would be a far cry from the Widow Fortune’s old Fairy Belle with the footworn treadle.

The sewing machine treadle had made me so horny that it only took a minute of rubbing my pussy to make me come.

Variations of twill are produced by changing either the threading order or the treadling or the number of harnesses used.

The draft for denim is first harness, second harness, third, repeat, and the treadling will be all but first, all but second, all but third, repeat.