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Meaning of heddle hook

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

heddle

noun

Definitions

  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

Definitions

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

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heddle

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