
1) Comb 2) Comb with a heckle 3) Heckle
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1) Heckle
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• (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. • (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. • (n.) To tease; ...
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Hatch'el (-ĕl; 277)
noun [ Middle English
hechele ,
hekele ; akin to Dutch
hekel , German
hechel , Danish
hegle , Swedish
häkla , and probably to English
hook . See
Hook , and confer
Hackle ,
Heckle .] An instrument with...
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Hatch'el transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Hatcheled or
Hatchelled (-ĕld);
present participle & verbal noun Hatcheling or
Hatchelling .] [ Middle English
hechelen ,
hekelen ; akin to Dutch ...
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heckle noun a comb for separating flax fibers
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