heddle

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: Cf. Heald.

Weaving 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.

To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54