hatchel
 麻梳,麻櫛


 Hatch·el 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.


 Hatch·el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hatcheled or Hatchelled p. pr. & vb. n. Hatcheling or Hatchelling.]
 1. 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.
 2. To tease; to worry; to torment. [Colloq.]

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 hatchel
      n : a comb for separating flax fibers [syn: heckle]
      v : comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax" [syn: heckle, hackle]
      [also: hatchelling, hatchelled]