heckling

English

Verb

heckling

1. present participle and gerund of heckle

Noun

heckling (plural hecklings)

1. The act of one who heckles.
   • 2008, Ruth Wodak, Veronika Koller, Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere, page 256:

     Speeches during parliamentary debates, however, belong to linguistic action patterns in which interruptions and hecklings (Burkhardt 2004) are generally conventionalised and accepted as facultative reactions […]

2. The preparation of flax for spinning using special combs called hackles.