treadle 的 2 个定义
- a lever or the like worked by continual action of the foot to impart motion to a machine.
- a platform, as on a bus or trolleycar, for opening an exit door.
trea·dled, trea·dling.
- to work a treadle.
treadle 近义词
等同于 lever
更多treadle例句
- Treadle water pumps in Africa and Asia allowed women farmers to irrigate small plots and increase their harvests and incomes.
- A little black girl sat on the floor, and with her hands worked the treadle of the machine.
- Bent low over the machine, he seems absorbed in the work, his hands deftly manipulating the shuttle, his foot on the treadle.
- The wheel propelled by the treadle of the sewing machine will make a good drive wheel.
- You stood before this and turned a large wheel at the left to start it, after which you kept it going with one foot on a treadle.
- All that is necessary is to leave an extension to the arm or heel of the treadle to catch over the jaw of the trap.