1) to heckle tow, to dress it. N.
2) to heckle, is to look angry ; as a cock raises his heckle when enraged. Derb.
·noun & ·vt ·same·as <<Hackle>>. II. Heckle ·add. ·vt To interrogate, or ply with questions, ·esp. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Said to be from the Teutonic heckelen, to dress flax for rope-making. Also, an artificial fly for fi...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A name of the fifteen-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus spinachia. ...