So she laid down her hatchel -- but without crossing herself -- and said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore] Reference

Sif real a flax comb or hatchel Sichcal s meafitring bowl or entral Siulbipe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaeologia Britannica,: Giving Some Account Additional to what Has Been ...] Reference

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 smooth the threads.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from www.pantagraph.com] Reference

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 snow-banks on the side-hill, or help his father break and swingle and hatchel the flax in the barnyard?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers] Reference

"I don't wonder you look fagged; the ride through the dust was hard enough without having all sorts of other things to hatchel you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories] Reference

"Few have ever seen a woman hatchel flax or card tow, or heard the buzzing of the foot-wheel, or seen bunches of flaxen yarn hanging in the kitchen, or linen cloth whitening on the grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference

There the ancestral cards and hatchel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation] Reference

O 'flax to hatchel out, I'll tell ye all about it. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Oldtown Fireside Stories] Reference