Definition of hackle

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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..

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Iron :: Iron (v. t.) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
Shackle :: Shackle (v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars..
Gyve :: Gyve (v. t.) To fetter; to shackle; to chain.
Trammel :: Trammel (n.) Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle..
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple..
Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain..
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter..
Jew''s-harp :: Jew's-harp (n.) The shackle for joining a chain cable to an anchor.
Hackle :: Hackle (n.) An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers..
Bolt :: Bolt (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.
Unbind :: Unbind (v. t.) To remove a band from; to set free from shackles or fastenings; to unite; to unfasten; to loose; as, unbind your fillets; to unbind a prisoner's arms; to unbind a load..
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..
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..
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Stubble.
Unfetter :: Unfetter (v. t.) To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind..
Hatchel :: Hatchel (n.) An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle..
Stricken :: Strick (n.) A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.
Ramshackle :: Ramshackle (v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage.
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..
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