Then the road rose quietly but persistently; the treadles grew heavy, and Mr. Hoopdriver's breath sounded like a saw.
They would not stretch out; they would keep going round and round as if they were on thetreadles of a wheel, so that he made the smallest steps conceivable.
For some particular gradient it will be perfect; on a steeper gradient the treadles will be further in advance, but with a steeper gradient the rider should be more over the front of the treadles.
Her rather trim feet, cased in calf-skin shoes and yarn stockings, even as her daily toil could make them, were rising and falling on the treadles with monotonous jerks.
It required the merest touch on the treadles to send them skimming along like skaters on smooth ice, or swallows flying low.
If Welland's feet had been on thetreadles he must have turned a complete somersault.
In 1822, he made a vehicle that was moved by a pair of treadles and cranks worked by the driver.
The descendants of one family who formerly lived there still retain the nickname of "Triddles," from their forefathers having worked the treadles as their chief employment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "treadles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
