hockle
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Probably from hackle, a brush once used for fraying flax, and related to heckle (“to tease”).
Noun[edit]
hockle (plural hockles)
Verb[edit]
hockle (third-person singular simple present hockles, present participle hockling, simple past and past participle hockled)
- To damage cordage by twisting against the lay.
Etymology 2[edit]
From imperfect and past participle hockled; from present participle and verbal noun hockling. From hock.
Verb[edit]
hockle (third-person singular simple present hockles, present participle hockling, simple past and past participle hockled)
- (transitive) to disable by cutting the tendons of the ham.
- (transitive) To mow, as stubble.
Etymology 3[edit]
Probably onomatopoeic.
Noun[edit]
hockle (uncountable)
Verb[edit]
hockle (third-person singular simple present hockles, present participle hocklin, simple past and past participle hockled)
References[edit]
- “hockle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- hockle in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.