[
US
/ˈhætʃəɫ/
]
VERB
-
comb with a heckle
heckle hemp or flax
NOUN
- a comb for separating flax fibers
How To Use hatchel In A Sentence
- Flax was raised, and after grandfather had broken, swingled and hatchelled it, grandmother spun it into thread, which sold for $1.50 per pound.
- I don't wonder you look fagged; the ride through the dust was hard enough without having all sorts of other things to hatchel you. The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories
- Sif real a flax comb or hatchel Sichcal s meafitring bowl or entral Siulbipe Archaeologia Britannica,: Giving Some Account Additional to what Has Been ...
- Police shot Hatchel Pate Adams III twice with astun-gun - typically a non-lethal weapon - after officers said he went after them with a sword in his home. The Shad Plank
- One of these books contained illustrations of a hatchel and described how it was used.
- hatcheled" codfish, or any salt codfish picked into small pieces and freshened in one quart of cold water. Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes
- Brindle's calf in the woods, or gather oven-wood for his mother to start again the big brick oven with its dozen loaves of rye bread, or see the plow crowding the lingering snow-banks on the side-hill, or help his father break and swingle and hatchel the flax in the barnyard? The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers
- In this issue we will learn about that often overlooked tool used in flax processing, the hackle, also called a hatchel or a hetchel.
- But as there are few merchants who do not _hatchel_ each other a little, so standing near this merchant you could see he was not free from this feeling, and you would believe, if he had owned our goods and been free to receive payment for them, in such kind of pay, he would have valued them much higher. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
- So that afternoon beheld Sam arranged at full length on a pile of top-tow in the barn-chamber, hatchelling by proxy by putting Harry and myself to the service. Oldtown Fireside Stories