Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To hamstring.
  • To mow, as stubble.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To hamstring; to hock; to hough.
  • transitive verb To mow, as stubble.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Geordie, vulgar spit, spittle
  • verb Geordie To spit.
  • verb transitive To hamstring; to hock; to hough; to disable by cutting the tendons of the ham.
  • verb transitive To mow, as stubble.
  • noun A knob in cordage caused by twisting against the lay.
  • verb To damage cordage by twisting against the lay.

Etymologies

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Probably onomatopoeic.

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From imperfect and past participle hockled; from present participle and verbal noun hockling. From hock.

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Probably from hackle, a brush once used for fraying flax, and related to heckle ("to tease").

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