hockle

hockle [hok-uh l] Word Origin verb (used without object), hock·led, hock·ling.

1. (of a rope) to have the yarns spread and kinked through twisting in use.

noun

2. the spreading and kinking of the yarns in a rope strand.

Origin of hockle perhaps hock1 + -le British Dictionary definitions for hockle hockle verb hockles, hockled or hockling (intr)

1. Northumbrian dialect to spit