v. [CROSS- 6.] trans. To cross-question vexatiously or persistently: cf. HACKLE. Hence Cross-hackling vbl. sb.
1826. J. Banim, O’Hara Tales, Ser. II. Peggy Nowlan. We can cross-hackle her on the head of it.
1886. P. Fitzgerald, Fatal Zero, xxx. (1888), 187. The good-humoured way in which I have borne all this cross-hackling.
