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Teut. _haeck-en_, to fix with a hook.

_To_ HECKLE, _v. a._

1. To dress flax, S.

2. Metaph. to examine severely, S.

_To come o'er the heckle-pins_, to be severely examined, S.

Teut. _hekel-en_, pectere linum.

_To_ ~Heckle~ _on_, _v. n._ To continue in keen disputation.

_Mellvill's MS._

~Heckle~, ~Hekkil~, _s._

1. A hackling-comb, S.

Teut. _hekel_, id.

_Ruddiman._

2. The feathers on the neck of a c.o.c.k, S.

_Douglas._

3. A fly, for angling, dressed merely with a c.o.c.k's feather, S.

~Heckler~, _s_. A flaxdresser, S.

Teut. _hekelaer_, id.

~Heckleback~, _s._ The fifteen spined Stickleback.

_Sibbald._

HEDDER-BLUTER, HETHER-BLUTTER, _s._ The bittern.

_Burel._

HEDDLES, HEDELES, HIDDLES, _s. pl._ The small cords through which the warp is pa.s.sed in a loom, after going through the reed, S.

_Douglas._