hatchel

hatchel has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. a comb for separating flax fibers
• v.. comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax"