Significats de treadle (treadles) en anglès

The pilot shifted his feet on the treadles, and the deck pitched.

Though they spin their bicycle-treadles so amazingly fast, they are too late.

Farmers' wives used looms as well as spinning wheels with foot treadles.

The clamps are applied by treadles convenient to the foot of the operator.

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

A hundred pairs of feet worked the treadles while one hundred needles flew up and down.

Sullen and silent, they pumped the treadles and averted their eyes when she inspected their work.

The suction was generated by foot treadles.

He feels the wind of circulation systems, hears the ratchet of treadles and the high whine of flywheels.

There were foot-treadles for spinning wheels.

New sewing-machines were bought, and the fall of the stream from the lake was taught to run the treadles.

Rubber-covered treadles in the roadway at each electrically count the number of of cars, gateman's record must tally with that.

Thick beams stood upright within and over the platform, holding a complicated apparatus of hinged arms, treadles, and spoked wheels.

These cylinders were run by belts and foot-treadles, and gave a more powerful, constant, and satisfactory current than known heretofore.

The air smelled earthy and wet, and there was the constant whir of wheels spinning and clunky feet clopping the treadles.

As he moved onstage, preparing to give his rousing-andvery well-known-rallyingspeech ,hesaw Graham and Jason Smith manning the treadles of the wind machine.