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Woody fiber

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(Bot.) Fiber or tissue consisting of slender, membranous tubes tapering at each end.
A single wood cell. See under Wood.

See also: Woody Woody


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= to prepare flax for weaving as linen it is softened(technically, "retted") by soaking in water, separated from its woody fibers by beating ("scutched"--this seems to be what Cooper means by "crackling"), and finally combed ("hatcheled")}
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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