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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HEALD

Heald, n. Etym: [CF. Heddle. ]

 

Defn: A heddle. Ure.

 

Oxford Dictionary

heald

heald |hiːld | ▶noun another term for heddle. ORIGIN Old English hefel, hefeld ‘the warp and weft ’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘raise ’. The current sense dates from the mid 18th cent.