hatchel
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- Rhymes: -ætʃəl
Noun [edit]
hatchel (plural hatchels)
- A comb used to separate flax fibers.
- 1864, George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana [eds.], The New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge VII: “Edward–Fueros” (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 443 & 445 Broadway; London: 16 Little Britain), ‘Flax’, page 554
- One end of the bundle being hatchelled, it is turned round, and the other is treated in the same way; and the process is repeated on finer hatchels.
- 1864, George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana [eds.], The New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge VII: “Edward–Fueros” (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 443 & 445 Broadway; London: 16 Little Britain), ‘Flax’, page 554
Verb [edit]
hatchel (third-person singular simple present hatchels, present participle hatchelling, simple past and past participle hatchelled)
- (transitive) To separate (flax fibers) with a hatchel, or comb.
