hatchels

The articles most in demand were axes, hoes, cotton cards, hatchels for cleaning flax, hemp and cotton, spinning wheels, knives, and ammunition, guns, and bar shears for plows.

The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

I observed the part nearest me more minutely: there, the devils with pitchforks hurled them head foremost upon poisonous hatchels formed of terrible, barbed darts, thereon to struggle by their brains; then shortly, they threw them together, layer on layer, upon the summit of one of the burning crags, there to blaze like a bonfire.

The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Ellis Wynne 1702

There I beheld the devils with pitch-forks, tossing the damned up into the air, that they might fall headlong on poisoned hatchels or barbed pikes, there to wriggle their bowels out.

The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell Ellis Wynne 1702