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How to use treadle in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word treadle? Here are some examples.

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Pumping their feet on the treadle would turn the drill bit in the patient's tooth.
It lived for a long time at the bottom of the button drawer on my grandmother's old treadle Singer sewing machine, which I had inherited.
My mother wasn't good at sewing but she had a treadle sewing machine and patched and patched.
In this experiment, demonstrator pigeons either stepped on a treadle or pecked at the treadle to obtain a food reward.
He said that Tri-Lakes would provide 100 per cent maintenance to the treadle pumps that were given to the farmers.
He dipped his fingers in water, spun the bowls using a foot treadle and then played them almost like a piano.
Clothing and homemade baskets come from a cooperative of women who sew on foot treadle machines.
The rocking motion of the treadle and the gentle clacking of the machine often lulled the restless child.
He was listening to the singing of treadle sewing machines hard at work, not an encroaching fever.
Polishing in our workshop had to be done on an old treadle lathe, the only machine we had.
This should be set with the treadle at right angles to the wall, so that it can be approached from either direction.
The machines at our disposal in the Home Ec room began their existence as treadle models that at some point had been wired for electricity.
Franklin would pump the treadle, wet his fingers, and stroke the rims of the bowls, almost as if playing notes on the piano.
I was thinking of makin small dies and different contouring swage blocks to achieve different effects with the treadle I have.
Abadi uses water from the pits for irrigation during the dry season, with the help of a treadle pump.
A bellows operated by an assistant or by a foot treadle provided the forced draft for raising the temperature of the fire.
The motor in this machine rotates only when the treadle is actuated, so electricity is used only when the machine is sewing.
The introduction of the treadle loom by the Spaniards brought men into the weaving industry, especially as a commercial operation.
Inexpensive treadle pumps and small mechanical pumps have been introduced successfully in South Asia and Africa.
Another program provided 400 treadle pumps to each electoral constituency in Malawi.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This platform could be raised and lowered by the foot, by means of a treadle.
Such machines are worked by power and set going by the pressure of a treadle.
Paging, which is for made-up books, is done by a machine worked by a treadle.
The wedge had dropped out, and the step revolved like the treadle of a fox-trap.
Thimonnier's device was a chain stitch sewing machine worked with a treadle.
He gave the treadle a thrust that sent him off like an arrow from a bow.
The father's voice relaxed, and his foot lay limp on the treadle.
What is the difference between the treadle and a motor-power machine?
I had been given a treadle fret saw, and Hobbies Weekly Magazine provided patterns to cut out spill boxes.
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