Also 5 thredere, 9 thredder. [f. THREAD v. + -ER1.] One who or that which threads; spec. a. a person employed to keep the shuttles threaded in weaving; b. a bodkin for threading tape or ribbon through interstices in a garment or the like; see also quot. 1877.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, IV. lviii. (1869), 204. My mooder Charitee was cordere and thredere [Fr. fillaciere].
1877. Knight, Dict. Mech., Threader, a device for guiding the thread into the eye of a needle. See Needle-threader.
1908. Daily News, 1 Aug., 5/1. He went, at the age of ten, into a lace mill, where he advanced from the position of a ‘jacker off’ to that of a ‘thredder.’ Ibid. (1911), 3 May, 8. Inspecting automatic threaders and inquiring into their adaptability.
