Word Meanings - HATCHELER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who uses a hatchel.

Related words: (words related to HATCHELER)

• HATCHEL
  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. (more info) Dan. hegle, Sw. häkla, and prob. to E. hook. See Hook, and cf.
• HATCHELER
  One who uses a hatchel.