Combing process used to clean and straighten scutched flax or other bast fibers.
1 He'd like to draw us all over his hackling frames if he could.
2 Mummery and nothing more, yet no less hackling for that.
3 Keep him out of the hackling shop, then.
4 The hackling was accomplished by means of the simplest devices, such as pounding with hammers or sticks.
5 The next operations consist of "breaking," "scutching," and " hackling " and are now done by machinery.
6 Upon the staircase he passed a window and, glancing through it, he saw a light in the hackling shop.
7 Then went to hackling flax.
8 Flax is a crop on every farm; and the skutching, hackling , spinning, weaving, and bleaching are carried on in every country family.-Pp.
9 I should have softened it first by a hackling process, as we used to hackle the hemp in Kentucky; but I did not.
10 Before the fibers are entirely free from the woody part of the plant they undergo the processes of beating, breaking, scutching, hackling , etc.
11 Cybersecurity expert Matthew Hackling also tweeted there was no evidence of a DDoS attack.
12 Hackling or combing still further separates the fibers into their finest filaments-"line "and"tow."
13 "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.
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