Definition of hackle

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Hackle (n.) 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..

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Manacle :: Manacle (n.) A handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural.
Heckle :: Heckle (n. & v. t.) Same as Hackle.
Coupler :: Coupler (n.) One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars..
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.
Ramshackle :: Ramshackle (a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
Cramp :: Cramp (n.) That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
Pastern :: Pastern (n.) A shackle for horses while pasturing.
Hackled :: Hackled (imp. & p. p.) of Hackl.
Iron :: Iron (v. t.) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
Shacklock :: Shacklock (n.) A sort of shackle.
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple..
Trammel :: Trammel (n.) A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Stubble.
Palmer :: Palmer (n.) Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle..
Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle..
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action..
Shackle :: Shackle (v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain..
Hackle :: Hackle (v. t.) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel..
Fetter :: Fetter (n.) A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle..
Bilbo :: Bilbo (n.) A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships..
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