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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.

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  1. 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.
  2. v. t. To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.
  3. 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. To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.
  4. One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, withmounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads tothe lathe or batten in a loom.
  5. 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. v. t. To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.