Definitions for hackles

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hackles hack·le

Spelling: [hak-uh l]

IPA: /ˈhæk əl/

Hackles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 197 anagrams from letters in hackles (acehkls).

Definitions for hackles

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 hackles

1400-50; late Middle English hakell; see heckle

Examples for hackles

But his hackles remained raised as he accompanied the boy into the cabin.

Fao's hackles were very evidently on the rise; Delcamp's face was hardening.

But the conditions on the cash raised some hackles in Pakistan.

It is the connection of triclosan to dioxin that has appropriately raised the hackles of so many.

hackles for the dry fly must be stiff with very little or no web.

Are there fangs and hackles and claws which I have not yet uncovered?

The Sebright bantam is destitute of hackles and sickle tail-feathers.

The fat fee is raising some hackles, but the head of the nonprofit she helped tells Shushannah Walshe she was worth the money.

One or two of the nearer wolves raised their hackles and growled.

There I was drug through the hackles by the meanest master that ever lived.