Definitions for hackle

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hackle hack·le

Spelling: [hak-uh l]

IPA: /ˈhæk əl/

Hackle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in hackle (acehkl).

Definitions for hackle

noun

1. one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers.
2. the neck plumage of a male bird, as the domestic rooster.
3. hackles. the erectile hair on the back of an animal's neck: anger, especially when aroused in a challenging or challenged manner:
4. Angling. the legs of an artificial fly made with feathers from the neck or saddle of a rooster or other such bird. hackle fly.
5. a comb for dressing flax or hemp.

Idioms

1. raise one's hackles, to arouse one's anger:

verb (used with object)

1. Angling. to equip with a hackle.
2. to comb, as flax or hemp.
3. to cut roughly; hack; mangle.

Origin of hackle

1400-50; late Middle English hakell; see heckle

Examples for hackle

The longest fibres of the hackle must be of the same length as the hook.

Wind the hackle spirally around the body and tie off the butt, Fig. 12.

Be sure that the hackle is tied on edgewise with the shiny side to the front.

The hackle was a board with long, sharp steel teeth set in it.

But here the hackle is much more important than on the wet fly.

Kills well with hackle when the water is slightly discoloured.

After the first hackle, called a ruffler, six other finer hackles were often used.

The body and hackle, when put on, should therefore appear as shown in Fig. 14.

There too is the hackle which is the old device of the De Brays.

She could not get into any trouble if she stayed on hackle Island, declared Darry.