Hemp fibers that have been broken or separated; also a term for a person who deals with or works with cracked hemp fiber.
Compound of 'crack' (to break) and 'hemp' (the plant fiber). This technical term from textile and fiber industries reflects the processing of hemp into usable fibers through breaking or crackling.
Before synthetic materials took over, hemp processing was a major industry, and every step of breaking down the plant into fibers had its own specialized vocabulary—'crackhemp' is one of those beautifully specific lost craft terms!
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