hackles

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If something raises your hackles or makes your hackles rise, it makes you feel angry and hostile
{i} erectile hairs on the back of animals; feathers on the back of the neck of birds that rise when the bird is scared or is just about to fight; feeling of anger; feeling of hostility; dander
a feeling of anger and animosity; "having one's hackles or dander up"
plural of hackle
hackle
By extension (because the hackles of a cock are lifted when it's angry), the hair on the nape of the neck in dogs and other animals; also used figuratively for humans

When the dog got angry his hackles rose and he growled.

hackle
One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the cock
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To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning

Then, with a smile that seemed to have all the freshness of the matutinal hour in it, she bent again to her work of hackling flax.

hackle
An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp
hackle
A plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair
hackle
A feather plume on some soldier's uniforms, especially the hat or helmet
hackle
A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather
raise someone's hackles
To anger someone

Every time I hear him talk, he just raises my hackles.

hackle
{v} to dress flax or hemp
hackle
{n} an instrument, raw silk, skin, fly
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to constantly hassle or bother
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A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc
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Chicken feathers used to tie flies that look like baitfish
hackle
comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax"
hackle
To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel
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{f} fasten a hackle to a fishing fly; cut roughly, chop, hack
hackle
The hair on the nape of the neck
hackle
Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk
hackle
One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock
hackle
long slender feather on the necks of e g turkeys and pheasants
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various types of feathers used for making tails, wing cases, legs
hackle
An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers
hackle
One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used
hackle
To tear asunder; to break in pieces
hackle
Multiple surface defects on the end of a fiber Increases connector loss possibly to the point of not transmitting light
hackle
Descriptive of the feathers of a fowl
hackle
A feather plume on some soldiers uniforms, especially the hat or hlemet
hackle
a hatchel
hackle
long slender feather on the necks of e
hackle
{i} neck feather (of a rooster, peacock, etc.); long thin feather used for making fishing flies
hackle
turkeys and pheasants
hackles

    الواصلة

    hack·les

    التركية النطق

    häkılz

    النطق

    /ˈhakəlz/ /ˈhækəlz/

    علم أصول الكلمات

    [ 'ha-k&l ] (noun.) 15th century. Middle English hakell; akin to Old High German hAko hook; more at HOOK.
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