Meanings of hackling in английском

He'd like to draw us all over his hackling frames if he could.

Mummery and nothing more, yet no less hackling for that.

Keep him out of the hackling shop, then.

The hackling was accomplished by means of the simplest devices, such as pounding with hammers or sticks.

The next operations consist of "breaking," "scutching," and "hackling" and are now done by machinery.

Upon the staircase he passed a window and, glancing through it, he saw a light in the hackling shop.

Then went to hackling flax.

Flax is a crop on every farm; and the skutching, hackling, spinning, weaving, and bleaching are carried on in every country family.-Pp.

I should have softened it first by a hackling process, as we used to hackle the hemp in Kentucky; but I did not.

Before the fibers are entirely free from the woody part of the plant they undergo the processes of beating, breaking, scutching, hackling, etc.

Cybersecurity expert Matthew Hackling also tweeted there was no evidence of a DDoS attack.

Hackling or combing still further separates the fibers into their finest filaments-"line "and"tow."

"I haven't any doubt of it, Mr. Hackling, if you have," replied the late prisoner, heartily rejoiced to find himself in good company again.