hatchel
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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
The corn is held in a convenient handful, like flax on a hatchel.
From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.
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
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
Marriage ties fall into ashes like fire in hatcheled flax, morals are burned up, families torn to pieces, and society falls into revolt against law and religion.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
Horsehair, raw, hatcheled, boiled, dyed, also laid in the form of tresses and spun; bristles; raw bed feathers Free.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison by Harrison, Benjamin
Flax, raw, dried, broken, or hatcheled; also refuse portions Free.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison by Harrison, Benjamin
His teeth are very industrious in their calling, and his chops like a Bridewell perpetually hatcheling.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
Sometimes the clouds take the form of most airily-delicate brown crape, "hatchelled" on the sky in minute lines and limnings.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 by Various
Below in the barn black C�sar sat quietly hatchelling flax, sometimes gurgling and giggling to himself with an overflow of that interior jollity with which he seemed to be always full.
From Oldtown Fireside Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
So that afternoon beheld Sam arranged at full length on a pile of top-tow in the barn-chamber, hatchelling by proxy by putting Harry and myself to the service.
From Oldtown Fireside Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
