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n. A comb for separating flax fibers.

v. To separate (flax fibers) with a hatchel.

n. A comb used to separate flax fibers.

v. To separate (flax fibers) with a hatchel, or comb.

n. An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle.

v. To draw through the teeth of a hatchel, as flax or hemp, so as to separate the coarse and refuse parts from the fine, fibrous parts.

v. To tease; to worry; to torment.

n. An instrument consisting of long iron teeth set in a board, used in cleansing flax or hemp from the tow and hards, or coarse part; a hackle or heckle. Also hetchel.

To draw, as flax or hemp, through the teeth of a hatchel, to separate the fiber from the hard or coarse parts of the plant; hackle or heckle.

Hence To tease or vex by sarcasms or reproaches; heckle.

Also hetchel.

n. a comb for separating flax fibers

v. comb with a heckle

"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."

hatcheled    hatcheling    hatchels   

comb   

hatchelled    hatchelling    hackle    heckle   

tease    worry    torment