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hitchel

hitchel is the alternative form of hatchel.

Meaning of hatchel

Noun

hatchel (plural hatchels)

  1. A comb used to separate flax fibers.
    • One end of the bundle being hatchelled, it is turned round, and the other is treated in the same way; and the process is repeated on finer hatchels.1864, George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana [eds.], The New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge VII: “Edward–Fueros” (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 443 & 445...

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Forms of hitchel

Noun
pluralhitchels
Verb
third-person singular presenthitchels
present participle UShitcheling
present participle UKhitchelling
past participle UShitcheled
past UShitcheled
past participle UKhitchelled
past UKhitchelled

Questions about hitchel

What is hitchel the alternative form of?
Hitchel is the alternative form of hatchel.

Words near hitchel in the dictionary

  1. Hitchcox
  2. hitched
  3. hitched one's wagon to
  4. hitched one's wagon to a star
  5. hitched up
  6. hitchel
  7. hitchelled
  8. hitchelling
  9. hitchels
  10. Hitchen
  11. Hitchens

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