heckle
pronunciation
How to pronounce heckle in British English:
UK [ˈhekl]
How to pronounce heckle in American English:
US [ˈhɛkəl]
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- Noun:
- a comb for separating flax fibers
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- Verb:
- comb with a heckle
- challenge aggressively
Word Origin
- heckle (v.)
- early 14c., "to comb (flax or hemp) with a heckle;" from heckle (n.) or from related Middle Dutch hekelen. Figurative meaning "to question severely in a bid to uncover weakness" is from late 18c. "Long applied in Scotland to the public questioning of parliamentary candidates" [OED]. Related: Heckled; heckling.
- heckle (n.)
- "flax comb," c. 1300, hechel, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *hecel or a cognate Germanic word (such as Middle High German hechel, Middle Dutch hekel), from Proto-Germanic *hakila-, from PIE *keg- "hook, tooth" (see hook (n.)).
Example
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