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Synonyms for hackling


Grammar : Verb
Spell : hak-uh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhæk əl

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Définition of hackling

Origin :
  • Old English hacele "cloak, mantle" (cf. Old High German hachul, Gothic hakuls "cloak;" Old Norse hekla "hooded frock"). Sense of "bird plumage" is first recorded early 15c., though this might be from unrelated Middle English hackle "flax comb" (see heckle (n.)) on supposed resemblance of comb to ruffled feathers. Metaphoric extension found in raise one's hackles (as a cock does when angry) is first recorded 1881.
  • As in chip : verb knock a piece out of
  • As in chop : verb cut up with tool
  • As in clean : verb make undirty, uncluttered
  • As in comb : verb arrange hair
Example sentences :
  • The hackling was accomplished by means of the simplest devices, such as pounding with hammers or sticks.
  • Extract from : « Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States » by William Henry Holmes
  • The next operations consist of "breaking," "scutching," and "hackling" and are now done by machinery.
  • Extract from : « Textiles and Clothing » by Kate Heintz Watson
  • I should have softened it first by a hackling process, as we used to hackle the hemp in Kentucky; but I did not.
  • Extract from : « Europe Revised » by Irvin S. Cobb
  • It is then dried and broken, and afterwards “scutched,” and rendered still cleaner and finer by a process called “hackling.”
  • Extract from : « The Plant Hunters » by Mayne Reid
  • The prickly skin appears to have been used by the Romans for hackling hemp.
  • Extract from : « Eccentricities of the Animal Creation. » by John Timbs
  • This first combing process is sometimes called roughing instead of hackling.
  • Extract from : « Clothing and Health » by Helen Kinne
  • In the case of hackling by machinery, the flax is first roughed and arranged in stricks, as above described under hand hackling.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 6 » by Various
  • In the construction of hackling machines, the general principles of those now most commonly adopted are identical.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 6 » by Various

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