| The account of breaking, scutching and hackling flax, for example, is the clearest and most informative short discussion that I have seen. |
| 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. |
| Morgan Hackling, 19, was one of three friends trapped in the back of the vehicle when it rolled over in Tredegar Street, Risca. |
| In the case of hackling by machinery, the flax is first roughed and arranged in stricks, as above described under hand hackling. |
| Our dinner topics that night included retting, scutching, and hackling. |
| 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. |
