An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
HECKLE
hatchel, heckle
(noun) a comb for separating flax fibers
heckle
(verb) challenge aggressively
heckle, hackle, hatchel
(verb) comb with a heckle; “heckle hemp or flax”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
heckle (third-person singular simple present heckles, present participle heckling, simple past and past participle heckled)
(transitive) To question harshly in an attempt to find or reveal weaknesses. [from later 18th c.]
(transitive) To insult, tease, make fun of or badger.
(textiles) To prepare flax for spinning using special combs called hackles
Synonyms
(prepare flax for spinning): hackle
Noun
heckle (plural heckles)
Alternative form of hackle (“tool for separating flax”)
The long shining feathers on a cock's neck.
A feather ornament in the full-dress bonnets of Highland regiments.
Anagrams
• Heckel
Source: Wiktionary
Hec"kle, n. & v. t.
Definition: Same as Hackle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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