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Перевод: treadle

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Тезаурус:

1. The treadle sewing machine.
2. So I worked down here and nights up there preparing it and all round this, this place was coat hooks and that, where they all hung their things and I had to knock them down, you know what I mean, and fix me own benches up and er I'd got a little treadle lather and er sufficient for me to start.
3. I saved up these back pages until I had a complete set and my mother sewed them together on her treadle -operated Singer machine.
4. Under the window was Mum's treadle Singer Sewing Machine, always in use, for not only did she make much of the family's clothes but also dresses and coats for friends, which helped the household purse.
5. One small memory stands out: in the street was a treadle sewing machine, removed from one of the houses and on the top of this item rescued from possible loss by fire - two quite green apples.
6. I began my career hand-setting lead type for printing on Adanas and treadle presses before moving first into the world of computers and then journalism while Jim, my co-director, had spent some 34 years with British Airways looking after the production of their timetables from data bases.
7. The dun cock went down as the blue followed through, landing full-flush and kneading the gaffs on the dun's heart as if he were working a treadle.
8. In particular it eased the task of hollowing vessels, executing decorative designs in high relief and undertaking such tours de force as making vessels with pendant rings, sometimes with lids attached by chains, all carved from the same block of nephrite.26 A key device was the rotary lathe operated by a foot treadle, which left the hands free.
9. When Sweetheart fixed her hair and make-up a certain way and dressed up in the clothes she made on her treadle sewing machine, she looked for all the world like Jane Russell come to life from the big screen.
10. Will they really want treadle or dread?
11. The other end of the pole was attached to a treadle, which exploited the natural springiness of the pole, tightening the rope to turn the wood one way, then relying on the spring in the pole to turn it the other way as the rope was released.
12. Some were constructed so that they would only move when a passing person activated a treadle of some sort so that the toy would suddenly spring into "life".
13. An article published in the USA in 1867 under the title The Influence of Sewing Machines on Female Health warned against the inherent dangers of seamstresses becoming sexually aroused by the constant motion of the foot treadle, and advised the use of bromide to counteract any improper stimulation.