different between heddle vs hiddle

English

Etymology

From Middle English helde, from Old English hefeld, from the root of Proto-Germanic *habjan? (“to have, heave”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh?p-. Cognate with Old Saxon hevild, Middle Low German hevelte, Icelandic hafald.

Noun

heddle (plural heddles)

1. 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.
   • 1948 January, Make Weaving Your Hobby, Popular Mechanics, Volume 89, Number 1, page 190,

     The heddles and heddle frames, Fig. 3, and the reed may be purchased from dealers in craftwork supplies.
2. 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.

Synonyms

• heald

Derived terms

• heddle hook
• repair heddle

Related terms

• heddled (adjective)

Translations

Verb

heddle (third-person singular simple present heddles, present participle heddling, simple past and past participle heddled)

1. To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle.
   • 1947, Rayon Textile Monthly, Volume 28, page 377,

     After each frame has been heddled, stand upright within easy reach until the full set has been completed.

   • 1994, Kim Mi-ju, Gender Division of Labor and Skill as a Factor of Sex Wage Differentials, Hy?ng Cho, Chang Pil-Wha (editors), Gender Division of Labor (in) Korea, Ewha Womans University Press, 116,

     After heddling she takes the reeds and arranges them as ordered. She knows that if reed denting is uneven, the textile is ruined.

Related terms

• unheddled (adjective)

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• hidel, hidle
• hiddil, heddle, hydle
• hidels, hydles

Etymology

From Middle English hidel, hydel, an alteration, due to final s mistaken for the plural ending, of Middle English hidils, hudels (“hiding-place, concealment”), from Old English h?dels (“a place of concealment, hiding-place, cavern, cave”), equivalent to hide +? -le. For loss of final s compare burial, riddle. More at hide, huddle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?d?l/

Noun

hiddle (plural hiddles)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A hiding-place; a sheltered spot.
2. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A cluster, small group of buildings, etc. set close together; a huddle.

Derived terms

• but hidel
• hidel-like
• in hidel

Related terms

• hide
• hideling

Verb

hiddle (third-person singular simple present hiddles, present participle hiddling, simple past and past participle hiddled)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To hide; conceal.
2. (intransitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To nestle closely; take shelter.
3. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To shelter (in one's arms).

Scots

Alternative forms

• hiddil, hidle, heddle

Etymology

From Early Scots hidlis (“hiding places”), from hiddil (“concealment”), from Middle English hidels.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??d?l/

Noun

hiddle (plural hiddles)

1. A hiding place or shelter.

Adverb

hiddle (comparative mair hiddle, superlative maist hiddle)

1. In a mysterious fashion.

Verb

hiddle (third-person singular present hiddles, present participle hiddlin, past hiddlet, past participle hiddlet)

1. To hide or conceal.
2. To take shelter or nestle closely.