Middle English Dictionary Entry
hechel(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hechel(e n. Also hichele. |
| Etymology | ?OE *hecel; cp. MHG hechel, MDu. hekel. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. hekel.
1.
An instrument for carding flax, a flax comb, a hatchel; ~ maker.
Associated quotations
- c1300 Body & S.(5) (LdMisc 108)p.59 : With a sadel to the midside, Fol of scharpe pikes schote, Alse an hechele [vr. hechel] onne to ride.
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)427 : A la serence [glossed:] hechele.
- ?c1335 Heil seint Michel (Hrl 913)p.157 : Ȝe makid me soch a goshorne..Þer for ich makid on of ȝou sit opon a hechil.
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)547 : Serence..Hechele.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)41a/b : Metaxarius: an hechel maker..Metaxa: an hechel.
- (1445) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.80 : [One old] hechell, 2 d.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)595 : Mataxa: an hychele..Mataxarius: an hychelmaker.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)190/11 : More accordyth to a lechurere a Styfe-stafe than a Swerde, and an hechil than an chelde or a boklere.