hatchel

Example Sentences

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There is the ancient family chest, There the ancestral cards and hatchel; Dorothy, sighing, sinks down to rest, Forgetful of patches, sage, and satchel.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss

The corn is held in a convenient handful, like flax on a hatchel.

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.

That is to say, in Unter-Scheerau he changed his religion and his business and built himself a shop which was to buyers a mere hatchel and mouse-trap.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

Few have ever seen a woman hatchel flax or card tow, or heard the buzzing of the foot-wheel, or seen bunches of flaxen yarn hanging in the kitchen, or linen cloth whitening on the grass.

From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse