Crossword-Solution: TREADLED
We have 3 clues for the answer “TREADLED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Operated a potter's wheel | 1 answer |
| Propelled an antique sewing machine | 1 answer |
| Ran the old sewing machine | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or
grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous
silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular
variety.
Hint 2 anagram
CALT
Hint 3 another clue
BABY DOCTOR FOR SHORT
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Sentences with TREADLED (3)
She perched on the stool and treadled at her machine all day, turning out collars, the name of whose brand could be noted for its irrelevancy to anything in connection with collars.
Here were the big cutting-out table, the treadled sewing machine, three or four chairs, many fragments of material, several half-made garments, and, upon the walls, a number of coloured prints from fashion papers.
Roxana Beecher in Guilford, Connecticut, a hundred years ago, had a volume of philosophy fastened to her wheel and read the book while she treadled and spun; and no woman was really accomplished in the old days unless she could knit and read at the same time.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1999–2011).