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Hatchel

Definition: An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for
cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of
large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle.

Hatchel

Definition: To draw through the teeth of a hatchel, as flax or hemp,
so as to separate the coarse and refuse parts from the fine, fibrous
parts.

Hatchel

Definition: To tease; to worry; to torment.