| The account of breaking, scutching and hackling flax, for example, is the clearest and most informative short discussion that I have seen. |
| Because may be when they came she'd be hackling flax or threshing on the threshing floor, and they'd be ashamed to see her, and she'd laugh, or resent the present. |
| Our dinner topics that night included retting, scutching, and hackling. |
| Jay Haines was 17 when he caused the death of 19-year-old Morgan Hackling after careering into a parked car. |
| In August we shall keep many people busy with retting and hackling, and by late September have much linen thread to spin. |
| Then, with a smile that seemed to have all the freshness of the matutinal hour in it, she bent again to her work of hackling flax. |
