English Dictionary

hackle

/ˈhækəl/

verb

To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning.

She hackles the flax to prepare it for spinning.

意味（1）

To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning.

Then, with a smile that seemed to have all the freshness of the matutinal hour in it, she bent again to her work of hackling flax.

意味（2）

(transitive) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.

意味（3）

(archaic, transitive) To tear asunder; to break into pieces.

the other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces