treadle

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• The rocking motion of the treadle and the gentle clacking of the machine often lulled the restless child.
• He dipped his fingers in water, spun the bowls using a foot treadle and then played them almost like a piano.
• The other result was that Bob became skilled at hand setting lines of display type, locking up printing formes and hand feeding both treadle and motorised presses.
• The treadle pump is easy to build from bamboo or other wood and 2 metal cylinders with pistons.
• The sewing machine was still set up, the old-fashioned treadle kind her mother preferred. FAMILY PICTURES
• I almost wished we could use the defunct treadles because every time I turned my machine own it ran away with me.
• Her sewing machine had a "treadle" and our TV was a 5 "black and white with fuzzy images. Propeller Most Popular Stories
• During those forty-eight hours, the big howitzer, which is the type of the heavy German siege train -- the 225 mm. -- was brought up, and it is possible that a couple of the still larger Austrian pieces of 280 mm. (what we call in this country the 11-inch), which are constructed with flat treadles to their wheels to fire from mats laid on any reasonably hard surface (such as a roadway), had been brought up as well. A General Sketch of the European War The First Phase
• She had a treadle sewing machine and mended everything.
• I replaced the missing foot treadle; otherwise, it is as found.