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cross-hackle
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 h...
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▪ I. hackle, n.1 (ˈhæk(ə)l) Forms: 1 hacele, 3–4 hakel(e, 5 hakille, -yll, 7 hackel, hacle, 6– hackle. [OE. hacele and hæcele, wk. fem., ‘cloak, mantle, cassock’, corresponding, exc. in formative suffix, to OHG. hachul, MHG. hachel, Icel. hökull ‘priest's cope’, Goth. hakuls ‘cloak’, str. masc., als...
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