heckle

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• Known on stage for his confrontational style, Gelman heckles the audience as much as they heckle him.

• We go to the ball park, we heckle a pitcher who throws one bad pitch.

• Banners were waved and speakers were both cheered and jeered—opponents commonly turned up to heckle.

• A group of anti-monarchy protestors gathered in Montreal to heckle the young royals, holding up signs reading “Royal Parasites.”

• Please torment, harass, vex, heckle, and badger those two blockheads until they honor their commitments to my defense fund.

• Upon an oblong plank a b, two circular or square blocks of wood c and d are fixed, in which the heckle teeth stand upright.

• Whenever one half of the length of the strake of flax is heckled, it is turned round to heckle the other half.

• It is next to be beaten, and passed once or twice over an ordinary heckle or stiff brush.

• They set aside all thought of assisting their hapless brothers and sisters, while they heckle their unfortunate governors.

• Heckling is combing it with a heckle or wooden comb; binnings are halters for cattle made of sprit or rushes.