hockle
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Probably from hackle, a brush once used for fraying flax, and related to heckle (“to tease”).
Noun edit
hockle (plural hockles)
Verb edit
hockle (third-person singular simple present hockles, present participle hockling, simple past and past participle hockled)
- To damage cordage by twisting against the lay.
Etymology 2 edit
From imperfect and past participle hockled; from present participle and verbal noun hockling. From hock.
Verb edit
hockle (third-person singular simple present hockles, present participle hockling, simple past and past participle hockled)
- (transitive) to disable by cutting the tendons of the ham.
- (transitive) To mow, as stubble.
Etymology 3 edit
Probably onomatopoeic.
Noun edit
hockle (uncountable)
Verb edit
hockle (third-person singular simple present hockles, present participle hocklin, simple past and past participle hockled)
References edit
- “hockle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- hockle in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.