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Treadmill

noun

An exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place.

A mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps. Synonyms: tread-wheel, treadwheel.

A job involving drudgery and confinement. Synonym: salt mine.

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"Treadmill" Quotes from Famous Books

... self-centred we are!" Mrs. Valentin murmured, leaning across to claim a look from Elsie. "I realize it the moment we get outside our own little treadmill. We do nothing but take thought for what we shall eat and drink and wherewithal we shall be clothed. I haven't thought of the country once this morning. I've been wondering if all the good summer things are gone at Hollander's. It may be very hot in Boston the first few ...

— A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote

... mental initiative. In play the child makes his own plans, his imagination has free rein, originality is in demand, and constructive ability is placed under tribute. Here are developed a thousand tendencies which would never find expression in the narrow treadmill of labor alone. The child needs to learn to work; but along with his work must be the opportunity for free and unrestricted activity, which can come only through play. The boy needs a chance to be a barbarian, a hero, an Indian. He needs to ride his broomstick on a dangerous raid, and to charge with ...

— The Mind and Its Education • George Herbert Betts

... stockings, making articles of plain needlework, washing, ironing, housework, cooking, spinning, and weaving. It should in all cases be constant, and in the worst cases, disciplinary labor. She recommends, under strict limitations, the treadmill for hardened, refractory, and depraved women, but only for short periods. All needleworkers especially should receive some remuneration for their work, which remuneration should be allowed to accumulate for their ...

— Elizabeth Fry • Mrs. E. R. Pitman

... to have us all before the assizes, mother. We'll never get off without the treadmill, any way: it's well av' the whole kit of us don't have to go over the wather at ...

— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope

... shall we encourage to enter office work? Not the girl whose talent lies in making things, for to her the routine of the office will be a weary and endless treadmill entirely barren of results; nor the girl who requires the stimulus of people to keep her alert and keyed to her best work; nor the girl who cannot be happy at indoor work. Office work seems to require a temperament in which pleasure ...

— Vocational Guidance for Girls • Marguerite Stockman Dickson

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