Word Meanings - TREADLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The chalaza of a bird's egg; the tread. (more info) 1. The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.

Related words: (words related to TREADLE)

• MOVER
  1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
• MOVELESS
  Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• MOVABLE
  1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
• MOVE
  To transfer from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king. 3. To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence. Minds desirous of
• PRESSIROSTRAL
  Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
• PRESSIVE
  Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.
• PRESSGANG
  See PRESS
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• MOVIE
  A moving picture or a moving picture show; -- commonly used in pl.
• PRESSURAGE
  1. Pressure. 2. The juice of the grape extracted by the press; also, a fee paid for the use of a wine press.
• OTHER
  Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer.
• TREADBOARD
  See 5
• PRESSURE WIRES
  Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.
• PRESSWORK
  The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done. MacKellar.
• LATHEREEVE; LATHREEVE
  Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe.
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• PRESSLY
  Closely; concisely.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• ENMOVE
  See EMMOVE
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• HOTPRESSED
  Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• PROMOVE
  To move forward; to advance; to promote. Bp. Fell.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• HOTPRESS
  To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.