Definition of "heddle" in Englisch

noun

1. A component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded.

2. One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.

verb

1. To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle.

   • 1994, Kim Mi-ju, Gender Division of Labor and Skill as a Factor of Sex Wage Differentials, Hyŏng Cho, Chang Pil-Wha (editors), Gender Division of Labor (in) Korea, Ewha Womans University Press, 116, After heddling she takes the reeds and arranges them as ordered. She knows that if reed denting is uneven, the textile is ruined.