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Definition of Hatchels
1. hatchel [v] - See also: hatchel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hatchels
Literary usage of Hatchels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Papers by Belfast Literary Society (1808)
"The Hemp hatchels used by our rope- makers resemble the hatchels used in the
Linen Manufacture, but they are much stronger. When Hemp is intended for making ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1854)
"The payment was made in hatchels, knives, hoes, cloth, and other articles.
The harvest proved abundant, and the colony, unlike its predecessors, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1880)
"... bodkins, saws very regularly toothed, chisels which had been polished on stone,
and hatchels. With these were mixed deposits of yellow pottery, ..."
4. Household Manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860: A Study in by Rolla Milton Tryon (1917)
"... sheep's wool, hatchels, shoe leather, and linen yarn, 3 each; wool cards,
reels, and quill wheels, 4 each; yarn (kind not designated) and woolen yarn, ..."
5. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1867)
"In some places the stalks are severed in the middle by sickles, and the ears or
heads of grain are stripped off between two hatchels." Most people take for ..."
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