- Hackling Machine
- HACKLING MACHINEA machine for splitting flax, etc., to the finest condition. Also to comb out impurities from the fibres and leave them straight and parallel. The combs or hackles are formed of steel wire teeth of varying degrees of fineness, beginning with coarse and ending with fine. The product is "dressed flax" or "line flax" and the refuse is " hackling tow."
Dictionary of the English textile terms. 2014.