The treadle is a bamboo water pump powered by the human foot. From Wordnik.com. [Cooper-Hewitt Receives 600K to Continue Design for the Other 90% Exhibit The treadle is a bamboo water pump powered by the human foot – Inhabitat] Reference
Mainly women and youths operate the treadle pumps. From Wordnik.com. [Water profile of Zambia] Reference
This Wheel to turn with treadle and cry, 'Knives and. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 31, 1891] Reference
One of them said, "There's a treadle computer below.". From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Nancy did not answer but set the treadle to its duty. From Wordnik.com. [The Shield of Silence] Reference
The foot treadle can be placed either on the left or the right. From Wordnik.com. [4. Plastic clay forming] Reference
Option 2: hand-loom treadle operated, one cloth-width weaving. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
And arter six weeks in the Park, I could treadle along pooty brisk. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892] Reference
Cooling is especially important with a slower treadle-powered drill. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
While with her foot on the treadle she guided the wheel in its motion. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference
Power machines and treadle machines were exhibited by Messrs. Willcox &. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887] Reference
Here the light foot on the treadle grew swifter and swifter; the spindle. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference
He is sitting at his sewing machine, right shoe still on the foot treadle. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Her sewing machine had a "treadle" and our TV was a 5 "black and white with fuzzy images. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
A treadle is provided which instantly releases both jaws upon the completion of the weld. From Wordnik.com. [Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon] Reference
A little black girl sat on the floor, and with her hands worked the treadle of the machine. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening] Reference
FIGURE 4. 3.2-E The treadle wheel is operated by pushing the foot treadle (1) back and forth. From Wordnik.com. [4. Plastic clay forming] Reference
It was one of that sort that's stuck on a wooden table with a treadle arrangement underneath. From Wordnik.com. [Bullets & Billets] Reference
In the sewing room, he remembered, in the drawers of the treadle machine the radio was captured. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Place on Earth] Reference
Training of farmers and extension staff in the utilization and repair of treadle and petrol pumps. From Wordnik.com. [Water profile of Liberia] Reference
Then the little "treadle wheel" that turned with a pedal made baskets of spools for the "filling.". From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
Manual lifting with a mechanical advantage using a Shadouf or treadle pump to irrigate 0. 05-0.1 ha. From Wordnik.com. [Water profile of Nigeria] Reference
BANGLADESH PUMP: Illustrates a newly devised treadle pump that is helping farmers irragate their crops; with. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
A computer was tucked against a corner, its mahogany case and tiny screen gleaming, its treadle worn with use. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Farmers use either treadle pumps or buckets tied to a rope for lifting water from these shallow wells or rivers. From Wordnik.com. [Water profile of Zambia] Reference
It's better since the lanky 48-year-old farmer went into debt to buy a foot-operated treadle pump four years ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Giving Guide] Reference
It was powered by storage batteries and these were charged, apparently, by a foot-powered treadle off in the corner. From Wordnik.com. [The Doomsayer]
In India and Guatemala, health workers use a foot treadle to power a drill, the same way they operate a sewing machine. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
For scales of production of 1000 pairs per day and higher, enterprises may use treadle and hand-operated marking machines. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
She should not work a sewing machine with a treadle for at least six weeks, and avoid any unusual strain or over-exertion. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics] Reference
The potter can work either standing or sitting, and unlike with other wheels keeps his foot working the treadle continuously. From Wordnik.com. [4. Plastic clay forming] Reference
Hiram knew all about the monoplane dummy or the aerocycle with treadle power for practice work which he had operated under old. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
The efficiencies of the hand-loom with fly-shuttle and that of the treadle operated one are assumed to be, respectively, 50% and. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Behind each of these machines stands a man or woman with one ever-moving foot upon the treadle-board, feeding the seed-cotton from. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
The treadle pump takes it from there, using suction power to draw the water up through a nozzle and into Mr. Vey's dented tin bucket. From Wordnik.com. [The Giving Guide] Reference
Sara proved an apt learner, and soon was making the treadle fly, while her hostess, seeing her well underway, ran down-stairs for a time. From Wordnik.com. [Sara, a Princess] Reference
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