Definition of "heckling"

heckling

verb
1. present participle and gerund of heckle
noun
plural hecklings
1. The act of one who heckles.
  Quotations
  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 […]
  2008, Ruth Wodak, Veronika Koller, Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere, page 256
2. The preparation of flax for spinning using special combs called hackles.