Hackle is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HACKLE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to comb with a hackle
• dress or comb (flax) with a 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.
• To tear asunder; to break in pieces.
• comb with a heckle
NOUN:
• a comb for flax or hemp, also HATCHEL, HECKLE
• a long, narrow feather on the neck or saddle of a domestic cock or other bird.
• a feather wound around a fishing fly so that its filaments are splayed out.
• fly-fishing feathers collectively
• a bunch of feathers in a military headdress, for example of a regiment of fusiliers or the Black Watch.
• a steel comb for dressing flax.
• A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.
• Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk.
• 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.
• An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers.
• long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants
• erectile hairs along an animal's back, which rise when it is angry or alarmed
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to hack
• same as heckle

Words related to HACKLE

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Words that contain HACKLE

hackled17 hackler16 hackles16 hacklet16 shackle16 hacklers17 hacklets17 shackled18 shackler17 shackles17 shacklers18 unshackle18 hamshackle24 ramshackle21 ranshackle19 unshackled20 unshackles19 hamshackled26 hamshackles25 ranshackled21 ranshackles20 shacklebone22 shacklebones23

How to use HACKLE in a sentence

• The hens of both should have the body clearly pencilled across with several bars of black, and the hackle in both, sexes should be perfectly free from dark marks.
• Dark mottled grey for your wings, and a brown hackle, with a dark rather than a straw-coloured body, is the kind of fly we find most killing on the upper Coln.
• Instantly at the lucky hackle something darted, seized it, and whirled to fly, with the unwholesome bit in its mouth, up the peaceful Ayboljockameegus.
• The hackle was an instrument made of iron teeth, about four inches long, one-half inch apart and set in a wooden plank one and one-half feet long, which was set on a heavy bench.
• The tiny black and orange hackle goes curling out over the stream, lights softly, and swings around with the current, folding and expanding its feathers as if it were alive.
• The hunting fever was wakened by the need for the Brown Hackle already mentioned.
• If he made up his mind that he would have her, he must go armed with all implements, from the red hackle to the harpoon.
• The Brown Hackle and Royal Coachman did well, however, and, in later fishing on this lake, we found them more reliable than the gayer flies.
• Sometimes when he was at work with their horses, or intent on casting his brown hackle for a fish, she would watch him with eyes that were fuller of love than of understanding.
• There is none like him in this country for fixing a pair of spurs, for cutting the tail and wings and shortening the hackle and the rump feathers.
• Black hackle is better for it than small grey midges.
• Mahaseer in abundance, and very greedy after a red hackle of fish, Macrognathus and Opheocephalus occur also.

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