| 单词 | hackle maker |
| 释义 | > as lemmashackle maker hackle maker n. [compare earlier heckle maker at heckle n. Compounds 1] now historical a person employed to make hackles (sense 1a), or to make or maintain hackling machinery. ΚΠ 1719 Evening Post 22 Sept. (advt.) Charles Milward of Coventry, Hackle-maker, Jersey Comb-maker, and Perriwig Card-maker. 1892 Belfast News-letter 14 Mar. 2/4 Wanted, work as hackle-maker by steady Man; twenty years' experience; well up in classing and repairing machines and cards. 2004 J. Roup Fisherman in Saddle 14 Andrew was a hackle maker, whose job was to set up the sharp combs used in the textile manufacturing process to separate the fibres of cotton, flax or jute. < as lemmas |
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