I'm captain, and I'll work the port treadles.

Nevertheless, mounting the last slope was such hard labour that Mugford had to turn to and "work his passage," by every now and again taking a spell at the treadles.

But he greatly improved his acquaintance with William Webster; and although he had now so much to occupy him, would not be satisfied until he was able to drive the shuttle, and work the treadles and the batten, and, in short, turn out almost as good a bit of linen as William himselfonly he wanted about twice as much time to it.

handle, hilt, haft, shaft, heft, shank, blade, trigger, tiller, helm, treadle, key; turnscrew, screwdriver; knocker.

The strips of bast are then drawn under a knife, the blade of which is three inches broad by six long, fastened at one end to the extremity of a flexible stick so that it is suspended perpendicularly over a well-smoothed block, and at the other end to a handle connected by means of a cord to a treadle, which can be pressed firmly down, as occasion requires.

I'm a number one, double-extra, back-springed, copper-fastened burglar, with all the attachments and noiseless treadle.

In truth the subtle web of thought Is like the weaver's fabric wrought: One treadle moves a thousand lines, Swift dart the shuttles to and fro, Unseen the threads together flow, A thousand knots one stroke combines.

It was one of that sort that's stuck on a wooden table with a treadle arrangement underneath.

A few gin houses were equipped in the later decades with steam power; but most planters retained the system of a treadle for each pair of rollers as the surest safeguard of the delicate filaments.

You stood before this and turned a large wheel at the left to start it, after which you kept it going with one foot on a treadle.

But the age of treadles in the great manufacturing trades is a thing of the past.

The operators, relieved of the treadling, maintained a much better working condition; and altogether the introduction of power driving, once well tested, became a necessity.

In many cases two of these plates, fast and loose, are placed upon the main shaft, and their separation and contact controlled by the treadle.

Their contact and separation are controlled by a lever worked by a very slight movement of the treadle.

But the chief point of interest in this device lies in the combination with the lever of a brake, enabling the operator, by a simple reversal of the treadle's motion, to instantly suspend the rotation of the machine.

The speed is always in direct proportion to the pressure exerted upon the treadle, and a single stitch can be made at will.

The first band is left rather loose, and the machine is set in motion by the tightening of this band through the depression of the treadle.

The speed varies in proportion to the pressure applied, and the sensitiveness of the arrangement is increased by a brake device coming into play by the reversal of the treadle as before.

* Power machines and treadle machines were exhibited by Messrs. Willcox & Gibbs, Messrs. Wheeler & Wilson, and the Singer Manufacturing Company.

It worked by a foot treadle.

While the uncle stopped treadling and held the blue-tailed shuttle in his hand, the breathless little boy told him that the field was finished.

All the days before Christmas her bare feet on the treadle keep the wheels whirring.

Then she looked at the spinning-wheel, and watched the old Hausfrau turn the treadle.