Dictionary Entry
hackle
hackle is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.
- 2noun
Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers.
- 5transitive verb
To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
- 6transitive verb
To tear asunder; to break in pieces.
- 7noun
long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants
- 8verb
comb with a heckle
"heckle hemp or flax"
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