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noun

hackle n.

A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.

Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk.

One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used.

An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers.

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Etymology of 'Hackle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hackle" Quotes from Famous Books

... on the steps to fill his chest with the fresh morning air, as he glanced at the weathercock over the stables—and then set to work to put his tackle together on the lawn, humming a tune to himself as he selected an insinuating red hackle and alder fly from his well-worn book, and tied them on to his cast. Then he slung his creel over his shoulder, picked up his rod, and started ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... which ran through the meadow about a quarter of a mile away, was a brown, shallow stream, twenty feet wide, fretting over a rocky bed, with little pools and rapids which had a promising look; so we looped on a red and a brown hackle and began to cast. Levell walked down stream about a quarter of a mile before he began, so as to leave a piece of water for the Scribe. The sun shone very bright and hot, and only a few small trout answered my invitations. They were darker and less brilliant in color than our Salmo fontinalis, ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873 • Various

Words linked to "Hackle" : feather, saddle hackle, plumage, comb, hatchel, heckle, saddle feather, plume