hockleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Probably from hackle, a brush once used for fraying flax, and related to heckle (“to tease”).

名詞

hockle (複数形 hockles)

1. A knob in cordage caused by twisting against the lay.

動詞

hockle (三人称単数 現在形 hockles, 現在分詞 hockling, 過去形および過去分詞形 hockled)

1. To damage cordage by twisting against the lay.

語源 2

From imperfect and past participle hockled; from present participle and verbal noun hockling. From hock.

動詞

hockle (三人称単数 現在形 hockles, 現在分詞 hockling, 過去形および過去分詞形 hockled)

1. (transitive) to disable by cutting the tendons of the ham.

   Synonyms: hamstring, hock, hough

2. (transitive) To mow, as stubble.

語源 3

Probably onomatopoeic.

名詞

hockle (uncountable)

1. (Tyneside, vulgar) spit, spittle

動詞

hockle (三人称単数 現在形 hockles, 現在分詞 hocklin, 過去形および過去分詞形 hockled)

1. (Tyneside) To spit.

参照

• hockle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Webster, Noah (1828) , “hockle”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language