HACKLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hackle mean? 

• HACKLE (noun)
  The noun HACKLE has 1 sense:

1. long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants

  Familiarity information: HACKLE used as a noun is very rare.

• HACKLE (verb)
  The verb HACKLE has 1 sense:

1. comb with a heckle

  Familiarity information: HACKLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HACKLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("hackle" is a kind of...):

feather; plumage; plume (the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hackle"):

saddle feather; saddle hackle (a long narrow feather on the back (saddle) of a domestic fowl)

• HACKLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hackle    ... he / she / it hackles   
Past simple: hackled   
Past participle: hackled   
-ing form: hackling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Comb with a heckle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

hackle; hatchel; heckle

Context example:

heckle hemp or flax

Hypernyms (to "hackle" is one way to...):

comb (straighten with a comb)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

There too is the hackle which is the old device of the De Brays.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For five minutes he was so close to my rock that by stretching out my hand I could have touched the hideous waving hackles upon his back.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)