Hackling

Word HACKLING
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Definitions and meanings of "Hackling"

What do we mean by hackling?

To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning.

To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.

To tear asunder; to break into pieces.

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The word "hackling" in example sentences

A process called hackling separates flax into long fibers and short fibers, or staple. ❋ CHERYL MENDELSON (2005)

Joe Wilson's hackling was disrespectful, rude, and heartless toward our and his President of the United States. ❋ Unknown (2009)

After that came the hackling, the exposed fibers being drawn again and again through ever finer combs. ❋ Gemmell, David (2006)

The other two eagles were hackling, strung tight, ready to go at it again. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Scar shifted, head up, looking around without any of the hackling or flaring he would have displayed were there unmet eagles nearby. ❋ Unknown (2006)

For very fine linen, hackling is done by hand to produce longer fibers than can be obtained by machine hackling. ❋ CHERYL MENDELSON (2005)

Reactions had ranged from hackling snarls to yelping flight, but even the friendliest curs gave him wide berth. ❋ Barbara Hambly (2000)

"Their absence will make parliamentary work even more comfortable without unnecessary noise and hackling." ❋ Unknown (1997)

"Infact their absence will make parliamentary work even more comfortable without unnecessary noise and hackling." ❋ Unknown (1997)

Suddenly, he broke into song again, and this time, the words were some Naitachal had never heard from the boy before-and there was full, hair-hackling, power-strong Bardic strength behind them. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1993)

Aërial in her delicacy, as the blue-eyed flax-flower with which they sowed their fields, she had yet its strong fibre, which no stroke of the flail could break; bruising and hackling only made it fitter for uses of homely utility. ❋ Various (N/A)

All that day, whilst the industrious _grummelfuhr_ hackled and received good cheer in the form of krapfen, for hackling is hard work, Moro attended in the character of a kind but strict overseer. ❋ Various (N/A)

Before the fibers are entirely free from the woody part of the plant they undergo the processes of beating, breaking, scutching, hackling, etc. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

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