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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
treadle .
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Examples
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His son, Allan, was in the yard, sharpening a knife on a foot-treadled grindstone.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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Cavalry troopers queued to have their swords or sabres ground to a killing edge on the treadled stones, while the gunners filled the shot-cases of their field carriages with ready ammunition.
Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990
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He oiled the wheel, treadled it, and then put the blade onto the stone so that it rang, it shrieked, and the sparks flowed like live-fire from the steel.
Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983
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He oiled the wheel, treadled it, and then put the blade onto the stone so that it rang, it shrieked, and the sparks flowed like live-fire from the steel.
Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983
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At that time I have had some success with a box trap treadled by an electric contrivance instead of figure 4.
Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943
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In the strenuousness of his concentration he treadled fitfully on the floor.
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She perched on the stool and treadled at her machine all day, turning out collars, the name of whose brand could be noted for its irrelevancy to anything in connection with collars.
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets Stephen Crane 1885
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In the strenuousness of his concentration he treadled fitfully on the floor.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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