(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.
Example Sentences:
Heckle
Definition:
(n. & v. t.) Same as Hackle.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I was at a comedy club trying to do my act, and I got heckled and I took it badly and went into a rage," Richards said.
(2) The performance was not without some good‑natured heckling, largely involving bellowed chants of "We want you to stay" from the assembled playing staff.
(3) Actually, I had betrayed the seriousness of what had happened, because my story ignored the fact that I had been genuinely frightened and in a degree of danger during the heckling.
(4) I told her how sorry I was, and that I thought she was heckling because she hated my show.
(5) Malcolm Turnbull heckled by Liberals as anger lingers over Tony Abbott's ouster Read more Villatora, who had earlier warned the NSW state council about the party increasingly resembling “a closed shop”, said the limited trials between now and 2019 were an “important step towards a fully democratic party”.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nicky Morgan heckled at NASUWT conference – video No one had consulted, it seems, the hundreds of Tory-controlled councils that regard running education as one of their big jobs.
(7) One said: “We should read the bills before we pass the bills.” There were heckles from Republicans.
(8) In Riga, a city with a majority of ethnic Russians, a small band of protesters heckled the marchers with calls such as: "Shame on you", "A disgrace" and "What is there to be proud of?"
(9) Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney was heckled repeatedly during his closing rally of the Iowa campaign, with shouts that he is ignoring the poor and is too close to Wall Street.
(10) At one point, Watson was heckled by an audience member.
(11) Seann Walsh: It's bad when someone heckles you by shouting out "Taxi!".
(12) Helena says there are reports that the mission chiefs were also heckled as they arrived, but there are no further incidents reported.
(13) The funniest heckle I’ve ever had When I was a larger man, I went onstage wearing a stripy T-shirt and someone shouted: “Horizontal stripes are a fat man no-no!” Harsh but fair.
(14) I want you to be very happy.” But the politeness very quickly faded as he interrupted, heckled, rolled his eyes and tried to throw the authority figure off her game with lies.
(15) CND stewards threw out the hecklers just as Labour party conference stewards had thrown out CND's Walter Wolfgang when he heckled Jack Straw the previous month.
(16) Republican healthcare bill limps into recess with no vote in sight Read more Amid heckling and chanting, Cassidy attempted to describe his efforts to draft new legislation and answered angry questioning about the Senate healthcare plan which did not come to a vote this week , after party leaders realised they did not have enough votes to pass it.
(17) But in Dundee’s Overgate shopping centre, where Murphy was heckled by yes supporters during his pro-union speaking tour last summer, the impact of Scottish Labour’s recent pronouncements on welfare, fracking or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership appears minimal.
(18) They call me names – some of them even heckle me at public meetings.
(19) This is my objection to the reforms being proposed – whether from the inside by threatening exit, or by exiting and heckling from the sidelines.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Confrontations with protesters in Reno were few compared with other campaign stops, leaving Trump begging for a protester to heckle.