treadle

How To Use treadle In A Sentence

• the brick maker treadles over clay to pick out the stones
• 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.
• I loved the sound of my boot beating on the treadle.
• In this experiment, demonstrator pigeons either stepped on a treadle or pecked at the treadle to obtain a food reward.
• Franklin's glass armonica, which rests in a mahogany veneered case on cabriole legs and pad feet, was probably originally fitted with a foot treadle to rotate the axle on which the color-coded glass bowls were mounted.
• She was working the treadle of her sewing - machine.
• Clothing and homemade baskets come from a cooperative of women who sew on foot treadle machines.
• We designed a range of affordable irrigation tools such as treadle pumps, and mass-marketed them to small-acreage farmers through the local private sector. Clear Sight
• My grandmother still uses her old treadle sewing machine.
• He said that Tri-Lakes would provide 100 per cent maintenance to the treadle pumps that were given to the farmers.