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hackler

n. A worker who separated the coarse part of flax or hemp with a hackle; a flax-dresser

Usage examples of "hackler".

Loring Everett Newton was senior partner in the insurance firm of Newton, Hackler and Fern.

Big, red-faced Henry Hackler enjoyed the sound of his own booming voice.

Mr Hackler, to get inside him and discover just what is worrying him so.

With a sneer on his lips then, Henry Hackler backed slowly to the door, dragging the girl with him.

Retreat was impossible, and the chances were about even that Hackler would squeeze the trigger.

Even so, with a squirming woman in his grasp Hackler could easily miss.

Martin Lane whirled with his knees bent and, with an enormous heave of shoulders more muscular than they seemed, jerked the amazed Hackler off his feet.

This man Andrews crept up behind me and slugged me, then he and Hackler threw me most ignominiously into a closet while this girl took my place for the performance!

Carl wanted me to meet Hugh Hackler, a businessman who told us right off the bat that he was committed to another candidate in the primary.

Lounge in Santa Fe, when he was young, and the Sunday edition had gone to press, with Mygatt, Peterman and Peterson, Hackler and Bailey and Alding, celebrating the end of another week, and the sweatshirt crowd jamming the bar, checking their parlay card point spreads against the sport-page results.