Thesaurus / hackling
FEEDBACKsynonyms for hackling
synonyms for hackling
- cleave
- cube
- divide
- hack
- mince
- slash
- whack
- axe
- clip
- dice
- fell
- fragment
- hackle
- hash
- hew
- lop
- mangle
- sever
- shear
- truncate
- bathe
- brush
- cleanse
- clear up
- disinfect
- dredge
- dust
- flush
- mop
- pick
- pick up
- rinse
- scrape
- scrub
- soak
- spruce up
- sweep
- vacuum
- wash
- wipe
- bath
- blot
- cauterize
- clarify
- deodorize
- deterge
- edulcorate
- erase
- expunge
- expurgate
- hackle
- launder
- lave
- neaten
- polish
- purge
- purify
- rake
- rasp
- refine
- sanitize
- scald
- scour
- shampoo
- soap
- sponge
- sterilize
- swab
- whisk
- winnow
- absterge
- clear the decks
- depurate
- do up
- elutriate
- rout out
- shake out
- straighten up
- tidy up
- straighten
- adjust
- card
- cleanse
- curry
- disentangle
- dress
- groom
- hackle
- hatchel
- rasp
- scrape
- separate
- smooth
- sort
- tease
- untangle
- lay smooth
Meet Grammar Coach
Improve Your Writing 
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use hackling in a sentence
The next operations consist of "breaking," "scutching," and "hackling" and are now done by machinery.
TEXTILES AND CLOTHINGKATE HEINTZ WATSONThis first combing process is sometimes called roughing instead of hackling.
CLOTHING AND HEALTHHELEN KINNEThe whole operations in yarn manufacture comprise hackling, preparing and spinning.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 16, SLICE 6VARIOUSIn the construction of hackling machines, the general principles of those now most commonly adopted are identical.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 16, SLICE 6VARIOUSIn the case of hackling by machinery, the flax is first roughed and arranged in stricks, as above described under hand hackling.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 16, SLICE 6VARIOUSIt is then dried and broken, and afterwards “scutched,” and rendered still cleaner and finer by a process called “hackling.”
THE PLANT HUNTERSMAYNE REIDThe prickly skin appears to have been used by the Romans for hackling hemp.
ECCENTRICITIES OF THE ANIMAL CREATION.JOHN TIMBSWe frequently saw the inhabitants 49 washing or cooking for their pigs, and in one place hackling flax by the roadside.
EXCURSIONS AND POEMSHENRY DAVID THOREAUThe hackling was accomplished by means of the simplest devices, such as pounding with hammers or sticks.
PREHISTORIC TEXTILE ART OF EASTERN UNITED STATESWILLIAM HENRY HOLMESI should have softened it first by a hackling process, as we used to hackle the hemp in Kentucky; but I did not.
EUROPE REVISEDIRVIN S. COBB