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Hatchel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An instrument formed with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleaning flax or hemp from the tow, hards or coarse part. The hatchel is a large species of comb.

Hatchel [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To draw flax or hemp through the teeth of a hatchel for separating the coarse part and broken pieces of the stalk from the fine fibrous parts.

2. To tease or vex, by sarcasms or reproaches; a vulgar use of the word.

Hatchel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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. 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.

3. To tease; to worry; to torment.

Hatcheled [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Cleansed by a hatchel; combed.

Hatcheled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Hatcheler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who uses a hatchel.

Hatcheler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who uses a hatchel.

Hatcheling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Drawing through the teeth of a hatchel.

Hatcheling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Hatchelled Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Hatchelling Webster's Dictionary 1913

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