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verb
Hackle  v. t.  (past & past part. hackled; pres. part. hackling)  
1.
To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
2.
To tear asunder; to break in pieces. "The other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces."





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"Hackle" Quotes from Famous Books



... a small intaglio in the collection of Mr. M. H. N. STORY-MASKELYNE, M.P. Such gems were recommended by Clemens of Alexandria to the early Christians. "The figure of a man fishing will put them in mind of the Apostle." Perhaps the Greek is using the red hackle described by AElian in the only known Greek ...
— Angling Sketches • Andrew Lang
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... great-grandfathers, and then to tell Norman William that he must fight it out henceforth, not with a straw malkin like thee, which the very crows are not afraid to perch on, but with a cock of a very different hackle,—Sweyn ...
— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley
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... the seaman, ''tis a fine stretch of lonesome coast, and many is the cock of your hackle that ...
— Uncle Bernac - A Memory of the Empire • Arthur Conan Doyle
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Words linked to "Hackle" :   plumage, saddle hackle, comb, feather


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