Hackles is valid Scrabble Word

Is hackles a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is hackles valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for HACKLES in dictionary:

VERB:

HACKLE, to comb with a hackle
dress or comb (flax) with a hackle

PLURAL NOUN:

hairs which rise in response to emotion

NOUN:

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 feeling of anger and animosity
erectile hairs along an animal's back, which rise when it is angry or alarmed

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to hack

Words related to HACKLES

hackle15 hackled17 hackling18

Words that contain HACKLES

shackles17 unshackles19 hamshackles25 ranshackles20

How to use HACKLES in a sentence

Call it what you want, my stars, fate, karma, foolishness, anything, but I have this knack of raising the hackles of people.
For a moment they paused, beak to beak, eye to eye, furious, with necks outstretched and hackles stiff with the rage of battle.
But his hackles rose also, and his upper lip lifted slightly as the skin of his nose wrinkled.
His hackles rose a little and he edged away from the madman, because instinct in him enforced so much.
And for Jan, as he caught sight in the gloaming of his ancient enemy, his hackles had risen very stiffly, his pendent lips had twitched ominously.
And Zara heard him from her side, and stiffened in her bed with all the expression of a fierce wolfhound putting its hackles up.

Similar words containing HACKLE without suffix s

hackle15 hackled17 hackler16 hacklet16 shackle16 hacklers17 hacklets17 shackled18 shackler17 shackles17 shacklers18 unshackle18 hamshackle24 ramshackle21 ranshackle19 unshackled20 unshackles19 hamshackled26 hamshackles25 ranshackled21 ranshackles20 shacklebone22 shacklebones23

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