Heddles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 84 anagrams from letters in heddles (ddeehls).
1505-15; perhaps representing Old English *hefedl, a metathetic variant of hefeld (Middle English helde, ModE heald), cognate with Old Saxon hevild; akin to Old Norse hafald
I have an idea it is a reference to some bird; Mr. heddle thinks it has something to do with seals, but neither of us knows.
On each side of the woof in the heddle there is a carrier, B.
Mr. heddle also tells me that the old name of 'Lyars' for the people of Walls was to a great extent replaced by 'Cockles.'
The needle, which is longer than the warp is wide, serves also as a heddle in pressing the woof threads together evenly.
Mr. heddle here suggests it may have had to do with witchcraft, in which skins and especially seals' flippers were much used.
Scouties may be derived from the skua, though Mr. heddle gives an unpresentable derivation.
This very ingenious man in 1801 invented a substitute for the heddle.
With his left hand he works the reed, with his feet he works the heddle.
This will fasten the heddle in its place across the loom (Fig. 12).
Prof. Kennedy argues that these rods are in the wrong position and that D1 which is a heddle should be in the place of D2.
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