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flax comb

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  • So she laid down her hatchel -- but without crossing herself -- and said:
  • Sif real a flax comb or hatchel Sichcal s meafitring bowl or entral Siulbipe
  • After scutching, the settler would pull the flax through a board of sharp iron nails called a hackle or hatchel (see accompanying photograph) in order to untangle and...
  • Brindle's calf in the woods, or gather oven-wood for his mother to start again the big brick oven with its dozen loaves of rye bread, or see the plow crowding the lingering...
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