How to pronounce “hackle”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp. [from 15th c.]
• (usually now in the plural) One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster. [from 15th c.]
• (fishing) A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather. [from 17th c.]
• (usually now in the plural) By extension (because the hackles of a rooster are lifted when it is angry), the hair on the nape of the neck in dogs and other animals; also used figuratively for humans. [from 19th c.]
• A type of jagged crack extending inwards from the broken surface of a fractured material.
• A plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair. [from 20th c.]
• A feather plume on some soldier's uniforms, especially the hat or helmet.
• Any flimsy substance unspun, such as raw silk.
• (uncountable, slang) Pluck; courage or energy.
• [Verb]
• To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning. [from 17th c.]
• (transitive) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
• (archaic, transitive) To tear asunder; to break into pieces.

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