单词 | hackling |
释义 | † hacklingn.1 Obsolete. The action of hackle v.1; slashing, hacking. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] bita1000 kerfc1000 slittingc1175 carving?c1225 chop1362 cuttinga1398 hacking1398 scissure?a1425 garsingc1440 racing?a1450 incision1474 secting1507 raze1530 chopping1548 scotching1551 hackling1564 slashing1596 carbonadoing1599 kinsing1599 insection1653 secation1656 scission1676 gash1694 inciding1694 haggling1761 cut1808 shear1809 carve1888 1564 T. Dorman Proufe Certeyne Articles in Relig. f. 101v What they wer like to call mangling and hackling, tearing and dismembring, such as yow vse in goddes matters. 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. i. 38 Euill cutting or hackling of the knife. 1830 Brit. Mag. 1 363 The hackling of hangers and the stabbing of small swords..have been altogether laid aside. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2018). hacklingn.2 The action or process of hackling flax, hemp, or (occasionally) other fibres. Also: an act or instance of this. Cf. hackle v.2 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > heckling hatchellinga1398 heckling1440 hackling1616 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) v. xviii. 568 This line after it hath receiued braking and the first hackling, you shall take the strickes, and platting them into a plat of three, make a good bigge roule thereof. [No corresponding sentence in the French original.] 1680 J. Collins Plea Irish Cattell 26 In the Hackling, it is onely drawn together, and in the spinning, is easily drawn out again. 1740 Ess. & Observ. (Dublin Soc.) 181 The fourth..completes what the three former Hacklings had begun. 1765 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. II. at Flax In hackling, women and children should be employed from choice. 1879 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1878 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 564 In hackling the utmost care must be taken, for the nettle fibers are exceedingly tender. 1898 A. M. Earle Home Life Colonial Days viii. 172 The fineness of the flax depended upon the number of hacklings. 1943 L. H. Dewey Fiber Production in Western Hemisphere 67/1 Most of the work of hackling is now done with machine hackles in the spinning mills. 1983 A. P. Benson Textile Machines 18 (caption) Hackling is a combing process which straightens the long flax fibres known as line and removes the shorter fibres called tow. 2005 J. Salmon-Minotte & R. R. Franck in R. R. Franck Bast & Other Plant Fibres iii. 119 The purpose of hackling is to straighten, disentangle and parallelise the fibres. Compounds General attributive, as hackling machine, hackling pin, hackling room, etc. ΚΠ 1790 J. Fitzpatrick Thoughts on Penitentiaries 23 The store-room, hemp-beating and hackling-room. 1805 Repertory Arts, Manuf., & Agric. 6 Index 459 Hackling machine, patent for one. 1849 E. Chamberlain Indiana Gazetteer (ed. 3) 132 A brick building, erected for a hackling house. 1889 Fibre & Fabric 28 Dec. 347/2 One of the interesting parts of the Spruce street mill is the hackling shop, where 60 men are employed hackling the flax. 1904 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 19 July 725/1 In a machine for making vegetable hair,..a..pair of hackling-rollers. 1916 F. Tillyard Industr. Law 434 The exhaust opening at the back of the hackling pins measures less than 4 inches across. 2005 J. Salmon-Minotte & R. R. Franck in R. R. Franck Bast & Other Plant Fibres iii. 120 The hands of line flax are..fed into the hackling frames in batches. 2013 M. A. Zmolek Rethinking Industr. Revol. 452 John Marshall of Leeds pioneered flax spinning in the late eighteenth century, introducing a hackling machine that fed directly into a spinning machine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hacklingn.3 Angling. A hackle feather wrapped around a fishing fly, typically used to imitate the legs of an insect. Cf. hackle v.4 1, hackle feather n. at hackle n.2 Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > materials herla1450 warping1676 hackle1706 hackling1845 1845 New Sporting Mag. Apr. 272 The body is of the same material and colour as that of No. 4,..the hackling,..of the wren's tail feather. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling xiii. 397 Where a junction of hackles is to be effected..compare the length of the fibres, so that the hackling may graduate. 1914 Outing Dec. 305/2 Another difficulty the beginner is apt to encounter is in making the hackling thick and bushy enough. 1992 Field & Stream Oct. 70/2 I..substituted a fat yellow chenille body for the red one, and a brown tail that matched the hackling up front. 2006 D. Martin Fly-fisher's Craft 127 To float over fast or broken water, the hackling may be thick and long. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11564n.21616n.31845 |
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