hackle
[verb]
Synonyms: hack, haggle, slash

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hack·le(1) (hăkəl)
n.
► Any of the long, slender, often glossy feathers on the neck of a bird, especially a male domestic fowl.
► hackles The erectile hairs along the back of the neck of an animal, especially of a dog.
►
■ A tuft of cock feathers trimming an artificial fishing fly.
■ A hackle fly.
tr.v. hack·led, hack·ling, hack·les
To trim (an artificial fishing fly) with a hackle.
Idiom:

get (one's) hackles up
To be extremely insulted or irritated.

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hackle(1)
[Middle English hakell, cloak, skin, plumage, possibly from Old English hacele, cloak, mantle.]

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hack·le(2) (hăkəl)
v. hack·led, hack·ling, hack·les
v. tr.
To chop roughly; mangle by hacking.
v. intr.
To hack.

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hackle(2)
[Frequentative of hack¹.]

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

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