hackle
[verb]
Synonyms: hack, haggle, slash

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hackle verb³ trans. ['hak(ǝ)l] L17.
[from HACKLE noun². Cf. HECKLE verb.]
1. Dress or comb (flax or hemp) with a hackle, in preparation for spinning. L17.

2. Angling. Dress (a fly) with a hackle. Chiefly as hackled ppl adjective. M19.

3. Dress (hair) in wig-making. M20.

■ hackler noun a flax-dresser M18.

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hackle noun¹. ['hak(ǝ)l]
[Old English hacele, hæcile, corresp. (exc. in formative suffix) to Old High German hachul, Middle High German hachel, Old Norse hǫkull, Gothic hakuls.]
1. A cloak, a mantle, an outer garment; a chasuble. OE-ME.

2. A covering of any kind, as a bird's plumage, a snake's skin, etc. obsolete exc. dial. LME.

3. A conical straw roof on a beehive. E17.

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hackle noun². ['hak(ǝ)l] LME.
[Var. of HATCHEL noun. Cf. HECKLE noun.]
I.
1. A long shining feather or a series of feathers on the neck or saddle of a domestic cock, peacock, pigeon, etc., which is erected in anger. LME.
b. A stickleback. dial. M17.

2. Angling. An artificial fly dressed wholly or chiefly with a hackle. Also hackle fly. L17.

3. A cockade of hackles in a Highland soldier's bonnet. L18.

4. transf. In pl. The erectile hairs along the back of a dog, which rise when it is angry or alarmed. L19.
make a person's hackles rise, raise a person's hackles anger or annoy a person.

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hackle(2)
II.

5. An instrument with parallel steel pins for splitting and combing the fibres of flax or hemp; a flax-comb. (Earlier as HECKLE noun 1.) L15.
b. A tool with spikes used in wig-making for combing or carding skeins of hair. E20.

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hackle verb¹ trans. ['hak(ǝ)l] L16.
[Dim. or frequentative of HACK verb¹: see -LE³, cf. HAGGLE verb.]
= HACK verb¹ 1.

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hackle verb² trans. ['hak(ǝ)l] obsolete exc. dial. E17.
[from HACKLE noun¹.]
Cover (a beehive) with a hackle.

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hackle
̈ɪˈhækl
See: raise hackles or raise one's hackles

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