α. see hatchel v. and -er suffix1.
β. rare 1600s hatchelor, 1800s– hatchellor.
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/ˈhatʃ(ə)lə/, /ˈhatʃl̩ə/, U.S. /ˈhætʃ(ə)lər/ Now historical and rare.
A flax or hemp dresser; a hackler.
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c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 595/13 Mataxator, mataxatrix, an hycheler.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Serancier, a flax-man, a hatcheller, or comber of flax.
1649 in Jrnls. House of Commons (1803) VI. 310/2 A Hatcheller, that now hath Sixteen-pence, should have Seventeen-pence.
1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. vi. iv. 60/1 That old Women..that might work, and went a Gooding, should be Hatchilers of the Flax.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 54 Ground-tow, the loose hemp that comes from the sides of the hatchellers and spinners.
1809 L. de Tousard Amer. Artillerist's Compan. I. xxiii. 367 Such portion of the flax tow which falls under the hatchel..is purchased from the hatchellers, by the rope-makers.
1889 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Oct. 731/2 The senders of the shuttles, the dyers, the hatchellers, the spinners.
1965 D. A. Baugh Brit. Naval Admin. Age of Walpole vi. 286 A hatcheller's (hackler's) stint was reckoned in terms of the amount of hemp cleaned by weight.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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