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- verb Present participle of
hatchel .
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Examples
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Below in the barn black Cæsar sat quietly hatchelling flax, sometimes gurgling and giggling to himself with an overflow of that interior jollity with which he seemed to be always full.
Oldtown Fireside Stories Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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So that afternoon beheld Sam arranged at full length on a pile of top-tow in the barn-chamber, hatchelling by proxy by putting Harry and myself to the service.
Oldtown Fireside Stories Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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