hechtelled

Updated: May 6, 2025

She still spun shoe-thread for her friend the cobbler, who, however, furnished her the raw flax, which he had grown, rotted and hechtelled, in his bit of bottom land. There were still spinning and weaving in plenty at our house Mother had made, yearly, jeans, linsey, carpets and so on but the plantation was not wholly clothed with homespun, as had been the case in her father's house.

Martha McCulloch-Williams - Dishes & Beverages of the Old South