Definition of Hackler

1. Noun. A worker who separated the coarse part of flax or hemp with a hackle; a flax-dresser ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hackler

1. one that hackles [n -S] - See also: hackles

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hackler

hackiest
hackily
hacking
hacking cough
hacking coughs
hacking it
hacking run
hacking runs
hackingly
hackings
hackish
hackishly
hackle
hackleback
hackled
hackler (current term)
hacklers
hackles
hacklet
hacklets
hacklier
hackliest
hackling
hackly
hackman
hackmatack
hackmatacks
hackmen
hackney
hackney cab

Literary usage of Hackler

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Who's who in South Dakota by Oscar William Coursey (1916)
"It took Joy hackler, of the Gregory National bank, to develop the Rosebud reservation, and it took the Rosebud to develop Joy hackler. ..."

2. The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church Or by Joseph Lemuel Chester (1876)
"26 Richard hackler, Prebendary of this Church :4 [in the Abbey]. 16-f' Jan. 16 Mr. Lewis Proud: at the entrance of St. Benedict's Chapel.8 1617 April 7 ..."

3. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"The points of the teeth incline from the hackler, and a sloping board at a ... When the hackler has ruffed the root end, he seizes the flax by the part that ..."

4. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1901)
"Mention of hackler takes one back on memory's wing to the days of poor Mr. " Abington ... hackler won several races in the well-remembered colours of his ..."

5. The General Stud-book, Containing Pedigrees of Race Horses, &c. &c. from the (1901)
"MAGNET (Bay), foaled in 1886, by Florian, out of Cable, by The Confessor, continued from Vol. XVIII, p. 791. 1897 bf by hackler (sent to USA) - Л 1899 ..."

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