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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... Oxford English Dictionary
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hackle
▪ 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... Oxford English Dictionary
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