hatchel (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.
hatchel (n.) 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.
hatchel (n.) To tease; to worry; to torment.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary📕
hatchel hach′el, n. and v. Same as
Hackle
Part of speech
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hatchel, verb, present, 1st person singular of hatchel (infinitive).
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