ˈcross-ˈhackle, v.
[cross- 6.]
trans. To cross-question vexatiously or persistently: cf. hackle. Hence ˈcross-ˈhackling vbl. n.
| 1826 J. Banim O'Hara Tales Ser. ii. Peggy Nowlan, We can cross-hackle her on the head of it. 1886 P. Fitzgerald Fatal Zero xxx. (1888) 187 The good-humoured way in which I have borne all this cross-hackling. |