Usage of "hackling comb"

Tool with sharp metal teeth used in heckling flax or other bast fibers.

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Examples for "heckle"

But I take Parry's point about empowered audiences: theatre crowds seldom heckle. 
 The Guardian 

Canvassing is intense, whether by way of measured contribution or heckle. 
 The Irish Times 

I responded as I might to any other pointed heckle and carried on. 
 The Guardian 

The Kiwis can sail, the Brits can heckle, but the Americans? 
 The Guardian 

They take to the streets with gusto and heckle politicians at public meetings. 
 The Irish Times 

Olive Blue,-featherof Starling's wing, body light olive silk, and red hackle. 
 The Teesdale Angler 

Light Blue,-insideof Snipe's wing,-bodylight Drab silk,-tail and legs grizzled hackle. 
 The Teesdale Angler 

I felt a hackle-raising vibration, in the vicinity of my eardrums. 
 The Great Book of Amber 

You're a cock of a different hackle from old Heale, then. 
 Two Years Ago, Volume I 

Cinnamon Fly,-featherfrom Landrail,-orangeand straw coloured silk for body,-ginger hackle for legs. 
 The Teesdale Angler 

Fix'd gown for Prude,-MendMother's Riding-hood,-Spunshort thread,-Fix'd two gowns for Welsh's girls,-Carded tow,-Spunlinen,-Worked on Cheese-basket,-Hatchel'd flax with Hannah, we did 51 lbs. 
 Home Life in Colonial Days 

There is a period, which occurred between the time of being "hatcheled" and that of being "woven," that it exceeds my powers to delineate. 
 Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief 

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Significados de hackling comb em inglês