Usually means: Device guiding threads in looms.
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  1. heddle: Merriam-Webster
  2. heddle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heddle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heddle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Heddle, heddle: Wordnik
  6. heddle: Wiktionary
  7. heddle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. heddle: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Heddle, heddle: Dictionary.com
  10. Heddle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Heddle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. heddle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Heddle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. heddle: FreeDictionary.org
  15. heddle: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. heddle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heddle: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. heddle: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (heddle)

noun:  A component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded.
noun:  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.
verb:  To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle.

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