1. Furnished with a thread (as a needle); strung on or as on a thread (as beads); interlaced, twined; consisting of or ornamented with threads.
1541. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg., L iij. In puttyng threded nedles in to theym [wounds].
1758. J. S., Le Dran’s Observ. Surg. (1771), 274. I supported the Compress with a threaded Dossil.
1821. Sporting Mag., VIII. 262. She [a mare] had large corns on each foot, one of which was what is termed a threaded corn.
1821. Joanna Baillie, Wallace, liv. Tissue of threaded gems is worn.
1856. Bryant, West Wind, i. And hear the breezes of the West Among the threaded foliage sigh.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., IV. xxx. Standing with her arms thrust down and her fingers threaded.
1904. Farrer, Gard. Asia, viii. 74. A threaded chain of lakes.
2. Having or furnished with a screw-thread.
1844. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., VII. 153/2. On approaching the farther or opposite end they are made irregular, commonly called ‘drunken threaded.’
1884. C. G. W. Lock, Workshop Receipts, Ser. III. 288/1. The shank and threaded part of the tap.
1898. Cycling, 49. Working upon the threaded end of the axle.
3. [f. THREAD sb.] As the second element in parasynthetic combinations, as bare-, gold-, grey-, small-threaded.
1616. J. Deacon, Tobacco Tortured, 66. They make … well bred Gentelmen, but bare thredded Yeomen.
1617. Minsheu, Voc. Hisp. Lat., Aranuelo,… a small threaded net to catch birds.
1896. Godey’s Mag., Feb., 211/2. Long opera wraps … of gold-threaded brocade.
