Hackle
1. To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
2. To tear asunder; to break in pieces. The other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces. (Burke)
Origin: Hackled; Hackling.
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