Definition of "treadled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of treadle. (verb)

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• "His son, Allan, was in the yard, sharpening a knife on a foot-treadled grindstone."
• "Cavalry troopers queued to have their swords or sabres ground to a killing edge on the treadled stones, while the gunners filled the shot-cases of their field carriages with ready ammunition."
• "He oiled the wheel, treadled it, and then put the blade onto the stone so that it rang, it shrieked, and the sparks flowed like live-fire from the steel."