heckling
noun
- combing process used to clean and straighten scutched flax or other bast fibers
Wiktionary
noun
- The act of one who heckles.
“Speeches during parliamentary debates, however, belong to linguistic action patterns in which interruptions and hecklings (Burkhardt 2004) are generally conventionalised and accepted as facultative reactions […]”
- The preparation of flax for spinning using special combs called hackles.
verb
- present participle and gerund of heckle