What's the difference between hatchel and hatcher?
Hatchel
Definition:
(n.) An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle.
(n.) To draw through the teeth of a hatchel, as flax or hemp, so as to separate the coarse and refuse parts from the fine, fibrous parts.
(n.) To tease; to worry; to torment.
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Hatcher
Definition:
(n.) One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator.
(n.) One who contrives or originates; a plotter.
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(1) These included an investigation of egg handling techniques from nest box to hatcher; the adoption by the hatchery of plastic setter trays; an improvement to incubator environment; an improvement in the overall hatchery hygiene programme and the introduction of a regular monitoring programme based on the examination of hatchery fluff.
(2) Chicks were weighed before and after removal of the residual yolk sac immediately upon removal from the hatcher.
(3) Chicks held for 48 hours in hatcher machines lost 12.5% to 21.7% of their hatching weight and 79.4% of the hatching weight of the yolk sac.
(4) Congo red E. coli-associated airsacculitis risk was based on CREC exposure of the chicks in the hatchers.
(5) Inotropic or toxic cardiac activities of the conjugates are examined on isolated guinea pig papillary muscles and by the Hatcher method on cats.
(6) The attributable risk percent of CREC airsacculitis from hatcher exposure of CREC was 89.4%, pointing to the hatcher as the source of CREC infection.
(7) In the VIP area waiting for Akon, Pacifique Boraumzima Buluhukiro, the North Kivu coordinator for Interpeace , said: “It’s a very important day, to attract people’s attention to the meaning and significance of peace – but the biggest job is yet to be done.” • The International Women’s Media Foundation supported Jessica Hatcher’s reporting from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(8) You also have to be prepared to take certain risks.” • The International Women’s Media Foundation supported Jessica Hatcher’s reporting from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(9) After 18 days of incubation, incubated trays were transferred to hatching compartments either distributed randomly in the same hatcher (Experiment 1) or positioned as they were in the incubator (Experiment 2).
(10) Variety reports that the film is being scripted by Jeffrey Hatcher, the writer of The Duchess, and is billed as a co-production between AI Film, an offshoot of Icon, and BBC Films.
(11) Decontamination of setters and hatchers resulted in abrupt cessation of mortality in subsequent placements, implicating incubators as the source of infection.
(12) Use of the classical glycoside bioassay (Hatcher's digitalis titration) during and after washout, provided a semiquantitative estimation of ouabain remaining in the trabeculae; after a 4 h washout of the drug, the trabeculae were challenged by the addition of one-half of the initial concentration of ouabain (0.25 microM).
(13) However, Hatcher made a deal with the FSA to avoid criminal charges by helping to prosecute Calvert.
(14) The Cowboys force the Eagles into a three and out of their own - Dallas' pass rush puts pressure on Foles, who dances around the pocket for a bit before succumbing to Jason Hatcher.
(15) Two experimental chick hatchers in which ventilation air within the hatcher was partially recirculated in a positive pressure system, one with an air filter in the system and the other without a filter, were simultaneously tested to determine effect of the filter on quantitative reduction of viable airborne microorganisms.
(16) This great American picaresque isn’t especially heavy on narrative force so it remains to be seen how playwright Jeffrey Hatcher and director David Esbjornson will propel the Big Easy action along.
(17) In each experiment, half of the chicks were removed shortly after hatching and half of the chicks were allowed to remain in the hatcher for an additional 30 hr.
(18) Photograph: Bill Hatcher The submission adds: “Modifying properties on the basis of domestic political whim is a bad precedent to set and something the Australian government should not encourage.
(19) The FSA said it had fined Hatcher £59,098 – the exact amount Hatcher had made in profit on the deals.
(20) Still, as a parent, Hatcher admits Huhne's actions are difficult to explain to her children – all of whom are of primary school age.