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},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "hekel"
},
"expansion": "Dutch hekel",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Hechel"
},
"expansion": "German Hechel",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English hakle (compare the compound meshakele), from Old English hæcla, hacele, from Proto-Germanic *hakulǭ, equivalent to hack + -le. Cognate with Dutch hekel, German Hechel.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "hackles",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "hackling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "hackled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "hackled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "hackle (third-person singular simple present hackles, present participle hackling, simple past and past participle hackled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the \"Stranger People's\" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 155:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning."
],
"links": [
[
"dress",
"dress"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel."
],
"links": [
[
"separate",
"separate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "the other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To tear asunder; to break into pieces."
],
"links": [
[
"tear",
"tear"
],
[
"asunder",
"asunder"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, transitive) To tear asunder; to break into pieces."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhækəl/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhækəl/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ækəl"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "dress flax or hemp",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "vochlovat"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "dress flax or hemp",
"word": "hegle"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "dress flax or hemp",
"word": "hecheln"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "dress flax or hemp",
"word": "häglätä"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "taramak",
"sense": "dress flax or hemp",
"word": "طرامق"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "dress flax or hemp",
"word": "häckla"
}
],
"word": "hackle"
}
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