Hypertext Webster Gateway: "heddle"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Heddle \Hed"dle\, n.; pl. {Heddles}. [Cf. {Heald}.] (Weaving)
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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Heddle \Hed"dle\, v. t.
To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in
weaving.


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