hatchel

hatchel is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 15 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. To tease; to worry; to torment.
4. noun. a comb for separating flax fibers

   Synonyms: heckle

5. verb. comb with a heckle

   "heckle hemp or flax"

   Synonyms: hackle, heckle

Synonyms

heckle, hackle

Common word forms

hatchels, hatcheled, hatcheler, hatcheling, hatchelled, hatcheller, hatchelling

Words from these letters

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