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.
Definitions
- noun. A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.
- noun. Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk.
- noun. 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.
- noun. An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers.
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To tear asunder; to break in pieces.
- noun. long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants
- verb. comb with a heckle
"heckle hemp or flax"
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Common word forms
hackled, hackler, hackles, hackling
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