Hatchel (Verb)
Meaning
Comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The old textile worker hatcheled the flax fibers to prepare them for spinning into strong thread.
- After hatcheling the hemp, the fibers were ready for further processing into rope.
- In the old days, people used a hatchel to hatchel their own hemp for making cloth and other textiles.
- She carefully hatcheled the fibers, removing the impurities and aligning the strands.
- Using a hatchel took great skill, but the end result was flax fibers of exceptional quality and fineness.