hackle
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
hackle (plural hackles)
- An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp. [from 15th c.]
- Synonyms: heckle, hatchel
- (usually, now in the plural) One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster. [from 15th c.]
- (fishing) A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather. [from 17th c.]
- (usually, now in the plural) By extension (because the hackles of a rooster are lifted when it is angry), the hair on the nape of the neck in dogs and other animals; also used figuratively for humans. [from 19th c.]
- When the dog got angry, his hackles rose and he growled.
- A plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair. [from 20th c.]
- A feather plume on some soldier's uniforms, especially the hat or helmet.
- Synonyms: panache, plume
- Any flimsy substance unspun, such as raw silk.
- French: séran
- German: Hechel
- Italian: pettine
- Portuguese: ripanço, ripador
- Russian: чесалка
- Spanish: rastrillo
- Russian: хо́лка
hackle (hackles, present participle hackling; past and past participle hackled)
- To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning. [from 17th c.]
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 155:
- Then, with a smile that seemed to have all the freshness of the matutinal hour in it, she bent again to her work of hackling flax.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 155:
- (transitive) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
- (archaic, transitive) To tear asunder; to break into pieces.
- the other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces
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