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Shaft :: Shaft (n.) A rod at the end of a heddle.

Heddle :: Heddle (v. t.) To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving..

Harness :: Harness (n.) The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle..

Heddle-eye :: Heddle-eye (n.) The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread.

Heddles :: Heddles (pl. ) of Heddl.

Heddling :: Heddling (vb. n.) The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself.

Lea :: Lea (n.) A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

Simple :: Simple (a.) A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.

Heddle :: Heddle (n.) 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..

Heald :: Heald (n.) A heddle.

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