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Definition of Hatchel
1. Noun. A comb for separating flax fibers.
2. Verb. Comb with a heckle. "Heckle hemp or flax"
Definition of Hatchel
1. 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.
2. v. t. 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.
Definition of Hatchel
1. Noun. A comb used to separate flax fibers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hatchel
1. to separate flax fibers with a comb [v -ELED, -ELING, -ELS or -ELLED, -ELLING, -ELS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hatchel
Literary usage of Hatchel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Days at the Factories: Or, The Manufacturing Industry of Great Britain by George Dodd (1843)
"The workman, taking a ' head ' or ' layer ' of hemp in his hand, strikes it on
the points of the hatchel, and draws it between the spikes, repeating this ..."
2. Household Manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860: A Study in by Rolla Milton Tryon (1917)
"When the flax came into the hands of women and girls, the first process was to
hatchel it. One writer has described this process as follows : ". . . . first ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"2 (Simple). hatchel, to comb flax or hemp with a ' hatchel'. ... to hatchel flax,
&c., to comb, or dress it on an iron comb', Cotgrave. ..."
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