The corn is held in a convenient handful, like flax on a hatchel.
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One of these books contained illustrations of a hatchel and described how it was used.
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I remembers Miss hatchel puttin de baby in my lap en tell me don' drop him.
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Miss hatchel tell me I better stay on dere whe' I can get flour bread to eat.
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The fibres of flax are arranged in a parallel direction, and freed from tow, by drawing them through a hatchel.
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And yet, as if a thousand thorns should hatchel out at least one rose, we had one incident of lively interest.
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In this issue we will learn about that often overlooked tool used in flax processing, the hackle, also called a hatchel or a hetchel.
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Miss hatchel, she shake me by de shoulders once or twice, but never didn' whip me in all my life dat I knows of.
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A hackle or heckle The noun "heckle" is thought to be derived from Old English, with Middle English forms hechele, hetchell (c1300), hekele (c1440), hakell (1485), and later hatchel. The terms "heckle," "hackle" and "hackel" are used interchangeably at present.
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A hatchel, also known as a heckling comb, from Minnesota. Dressing is the broad term referring to removing the fibers from the straw and cleaning it enough to be spun. Dressing consists of three steps: breaking, scutching and heckling. After breaking, some of the straw is scraped from the fibers in the scutching process, then the fiber is pulled through various sized heckling combs, or hackles.oxforddictionaries.
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The people of these settlements were maize agriculturalists with complex societies led by high status individuals who lived at the mound centers such as the Belcher Mound, the Battle Mound, Hatchel-Mitchell Site (part of the Texarkana Phase Archeological District), and Cabe Mounds. Hamlets or farmsteads, such as the Cedar Grove Site and Spirit Lake Site for the Belcher phase and the Sherwin Site and Atlanta State Park Site for the Texarkana Phase have also been investigated.
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Lack of water was not the only problem the lake experienced. At times, the water was "clouded or turbid from rain-borne particles" as dredging was attempted to make the reservoir deeper. Increased mud and silt closed the lake for hundreds of days by 1912, accompanied by costs in the thousands of dollars for upkeep.William Royal Stokes and F. W. Hatchel, "Some results of the treatment of the Baltimore drinking-water by calcium hypochlorite," JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.
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