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hackle
1[ hak-uhl ]
noun
- 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.
- the neck plumage of a male bird, as the domestic rooster.
- hackles,
- the erectile hair on the back of an animal's neck:
At the sound of footsteps, the dog raised her hackles.
- anger, especially when aroused in a challenging or challenged manner:
with one's hackles up.
- Angling.
- the legs of an artificial fly made with feathers from the neck or saddle of a rooster or other such bird.
- a comb for dressing flax or hemp.
verb (used with object)
- Angling. to equip with a hackle.
- to comb, as flax or hemp.
hackle
/ ˈæə /
noun
- any of the long slender feathers on the necks of poultry and other birds
- angling
- parts of an artificial fly made from hackle feathers, representing the legs and sometimes the wings of a real fly
- short for hackle fly
- a feathered ornament worn in the headdress of some British regiments
- a steel flax comb
verb
- to comb (flax) using a hackle
Derived Forms
- ˈ, noun
Other Word Forms
- l noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of hackle1
Idioms and Phrases
- raise one's hackles, to arouse one's anger:
Such officiousness always raises my hackles.
Example Sentences
Among those he ministered to were two female prisoners, one of them a Muslim, which raised some hackles in the Vatican.
Scottish hackles had been raised enough by the suggestion that they - winners of the past four meetings - would be bullied out of the game.
“If I were going to tell you one thing that really gets my hackles up, it’s a persistent weak layer,” said Mace, the avalanche forecaster.
Adopting a fact checking system inspired by an Elon-Musk-owned platform was always going to raise hackles.
His current nominee, former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, isn't raising as many hackles, despite her threats to arrest prosecutors for enforcing the law against those who attempted to overturn the 2020 election.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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