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Heckle (Verb)

Challenge aggressively.

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.

A group of protesters gathered to heckle the politician during her speech, shouting insults and booing her every statement.
The audience was not tolerant of the comedian's jokes, and several people began to heckle him from their seats.
Anti-war activists heckled the president as he walked off the stage after his speech.
He stood up to the bully, refusing to back down as the boy continued to heckle him relentlessly.
Local residents continue to heckle officials, demanding action on the long-running issue of poor street maintenance.

Comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax".

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

To create high-quality hemp fibre, the process involved heckling and breaking the stems to separate the individual fibres.
The craftsman's skilled hands moved deftly as she used the heckle to tease out the finest fibres from the bundle of flax.
Heckling the flax required patience and care to produce the desired softness and quality.
Before spinning, the hemp must be heckled to individualize the fibres and remove the coarse, unusable portions.
Women in the village stood at their doorsteps, using wooden combs called heckles to prepare the flax for spinning into yarn.