Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Nicked or notched; jagged.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Rough; broken as if hacked; mangled by chopping or cutting.
- In mineralogy, having fine, short, and sharp points on the surface: as, a hackly fracture.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Rough or broken, as if hacked.
- adj. (Min.) Having fine, short, and sharp points on the surface.
Etymologies
- From hackle2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Most of the Ottoman period material consisted of fragments of thick walled, flat based, strap handled jars/jugs and cooking pots with simple rims, in oxidized hard to very hard fired reddish-brown fabric (s), with a rough feel, sometimes powdery, hackly broken edges and moderate, mostly angular inclusions, which were dull white and shiny black in color, and including lime and mica fragments.”
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“It offers no indications of internal structure, but, on being separated by mechanical violence, exhibits a hackly fracture.”
“But the majority are poorly acted, hackly written, and cheesily-produced.”
“a fragment out of the marble mantelpiece, and, picking it up, eagerly examined it, as if in search of a hackly fracture.”
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