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Hackle v. t. (past & past part. hackled; pres. part. hackling)

To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.

To tear asunder; to break in pieces. "The other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces."

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Etymology of 'Hackle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hackle" Quotes from Famous Books

... Then comes the swift, rustling sound of ripe nuts rattling from burs and husks; the coarse, bass voices of the crows among the naked stubble-lots; the mellow crash of corn-stalks, as the cattle tread them; the slow, liquid grinding of cider-mills, and the sharp sound of the hackle, where flax ...

— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens

... camps in many places, delaying several days here, and one night there, exploring the high solitudes together, and sinking deep in their romance. Sometimes when he was at work with their horses, or intent on casting his brown hackle for a fish, she would watch him with eyes that were fuller of love than of understanding. Perhaps she never came wholly to understand him; but in her complete love for him she found enough. He loved her with his whole man's power. She had ...

— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister

... possession of a normal human equipment for thought, and (b) the equally stupid masculine doctrine that they constitute a special and ineffable species of vertebrate, without the natural instincts and appetites of the order—to adapt a phrase from Hackle, that they are transcendental and almost gaseous mammals, and marked by a complete lack of certain salient mammalian characters. The first imbecility has already concerned us at length. One finds traces of ...

— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken

... said the seaman, ''tis a fine stretch of lonesome coast, and many is the cock of your hackle that I have helped ...

— Uncle Bernac - A Memory of the Empire • Arthur Conan Doyle

... invites stories of the day's catch. The speckled beauties are exhibited, lying side by side on the damp moss at the bottom of the basket. The tale is told of repeated casts, under the overhanging boughs, in the shadow of the big rock, where the water swirls and rushes: how the brown hackle went skittering over the pool, or dropped as lightly as thistledown on the edge of the riffle, the sudden rise to the fly, the rush for deep water, of the strain on the rod when it throbbed like a thing of life, sending a delicious tingle to the finger tips, ...

— Byways Around San Francisco Bay • William E. Hutchinson

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