- (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; to worry; to torment.
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