Definitions For Heddle

Verb

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

Related terms

unheddled {{qualifier, adjective}}

Translations

Icelandic: draga í höföld Italian: allicciare

Noun

HEDDLE (plural HEDDLEs) 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. 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.

Synonyms

heald

Derived terms

heddle hook repair heddle

Related terms

heddled {{qualifier, adjective}}

Translations

Ahom: 𑜁𑜧 Catalan: collador, m Dutch: hevel, m Finnish: niisi French: lisse, f German: Litze, f, Helfe, f Icelandic: hafald, n Irish: úim, f Italian: liccio, m Navajo: iiʼsinil Polish: nicielnica, f Serbo-Croatian: ničanice, f-p, list, m Spanish: lizo, m Swedish: solv, n Welsh: brwyd, f, brwyden, f

Etymology

{{PIE root, en, keh₂p}} From Middle English helde, from {{inh, en, ang, hefeld}}, from the root of {{der, en, gem-pro, habjaną, , to have, heave}}, from {{der, en, ine-pro, *keh₂p-}}. Cognate with {{cog, osx, hevild}}, {{cog, gml, hevelte}}, {{cog, is, hafald}}.

Is Heddle a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
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11
Words with Friends
11

The word Heddle is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends

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