Sentence:  Thomas Limbrick, who was only nine years of age, said he lived with his mother when Deborah was beat: that his mother throwed her down all along with her hands; and then against a wall, and kicked her in the belly: that afterwards she picked her up, and beat her with the <WSD>hacker</WSD> on the side of the head; wiped the blood off with a dish-clout, and took her up to bed after she was dead. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Something that hacks; a tool or device for hacking.