Heckle: alternatives and connections

An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.

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Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

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To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a t…

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One who badgers.

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One who badgers.

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A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.

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An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called al…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.