Definition of hackle

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Hackle (n.) An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers..

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Hackle :: 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..
Manacle :: Manacle (v. t.) To put handcuffs or other fastening upon, for confining the hands; to shackle; to confine; to restrain from the use of the limbs or natural powers..
Hackle :: Hackle (n.) Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk..
Trammel :: Trammel (v. t.) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
Hackle :: Hackle (n.) A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel..
Gyve :: Gyve (v. t.) To fetter; to shackle; to chain.
Cramp :: Cramp (n.) That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
Stricken :: Strick (n.) A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.
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..
Jew''s-harp :: Jew's-harp (n.) The shackle for joining a chain cable to an anchor.
Coupler :: Coupler (n.) One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars..
Pastern :: Pastern (n.) A shackle for horses while pasturing.
Wearer :: Wearer (n.) One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc..
Ramshackle :: Ramshackle (a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
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..
Palmer :: Palmer (n.) Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle..
Bond :: Bond (n.) That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle..
Shackled :: Shackled (imp. & p. p.) of Shackl.
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..
Unfetter :: Unfetter (v. t.) To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind..
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