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hackle

Part of speech: Verb

To dress or comb, as flax or hemp; tear into pieces; mangle in cutting. Also, hatchel, heckle.

Usage examples "hackle":

For one morning as she passed the bee- hives, her attention was caught by some soft white object under one of them, almost concealed by the straw hackle which came low down on each side of it. - "A Pair of Clogs", Amy Walton.
One night he would be busy helping his mother to comb and hackle her little store of flax; on another he would mend the net, with which he at times contrived to catch his mother a river fish or two for supper; and it would be play to him when nothing else was wanting his help, to go on with the making of a cross- bow and arrows with which he intended some day to bring down many a wild duck or wood- pigeon. - "The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; The Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace", Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick.
The Silver Doctor or the Gray Hackle or the Yellow Professor? - "Gigolo", Edna Ferber.