threaden
Made of or woven from thread.
Adjective
- Made of or woven from thread.
- threaden fillet - 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- Thy gloves they were made of a threaden stitch, Thou kept on thy hands to hide the itch; […] - 1811, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical Review:
- That kindness plungeth him into a deeper bondage; the first was but a threaden snare, which he might break, but this is an infrangible chain of iron. - 1861, Thomas Adams, The Works of Thomas Adams:
Origin
From Middle English threden, thredyn (“made of thread”), equivalent to thread + -en (made of).