1) Comb with a heckle 2) Dorset slang for work 3) Exclusively Saxon word 4) Exclusively Anglo word 5) Feather 6) Hand tool 7) Long slender feather 8) Neck feather 9) Plumage 10) Plume 11) To break into pieces 12) To dress with a hackle 13) To tear asunder 14) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 15) Word of purely Anglo origin
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1) Hair
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The hackle is a clipped feather plume that is attached to a military headdress. In the British Army and the armies of some Commonwealth countries the hackle is worn by some infantry regiments, especially those designated as fusilier regiments and those with Scottish and Northern Irish origins. The colour of the hackle varies from regiment to regim...
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[wig making] A hackle is a metal plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair. This tool is used as a preliminary step in the process of custom wig making. It is typically clamped firmly to a table before use. The pointed needles are very sharp. This is paramount, because the hackle is used for three main purposes: mi...
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Any soft-stemmed neck feather with non-adhering barbules. Typically used to refer to hen or rooster chicken feathers. Tied to represent the legs of an insect.
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Feathers from the neck or back of a specially bred chicken that are wrapped around the hook or other wise attached to a fly to imitate parts of an insect, such as legs or segments of the body. Hackle tips are used also for the wings on certain flies.
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a feather, usually from the neck area of a chicken; can be any color (dyed or natural); hackle quality, such as the stiffness of the individual fibers and amount of web, determines the type of fly tied with the hackle; many hackles are grown specifically for fly tying.
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comb for flax or hemp
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• (n.) Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk. • (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. • (n.) A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel. • (v. t.) To tear asunder; to break in pieces. • (n.) One of the peculiar, long, narrow...
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(from the article `industrial glass`) ...small mirror.) The edges of the mirror have a fine fibrous or misty texture, called the mist. Surrounding the mist are wider and deeper radial ...
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Hac'kle (hăk'k'l)
noun [ See
Heckle , and confer
Hatchel .]
1. A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.
2. Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk.
3. One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, ...
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Hac'kle transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Hackled (-k'ld);
present participle & verbal noun Hackling (-klĭng).]
1. To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of...
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the series of extended fibres right behind the eye of a fly. The hackle is what allows a dry fly to float
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Feathers from the neck or back of a specially bred chicken that are wrapped around the hook or other wise attached to a fly to imitate parts of an insect, such as legs or segments of the body. Hackle tips are used also for the wings on certain flies.
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a feather, usually from the neck area of a chicken; can be any colour (dyed or natural); hackle quality, such as the stiffness of the individual fibers and amount of web, determines the type of fly tied with the hackle; many hackles are grown specifically for fly tying.
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A hackle is a board set with sharp steel spikes for combing or pulling out hemp or flax to dispose the fibres in parallelism and to separate the long and the short threads.
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Hackle is Dorset slang for work.
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[
n] - long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants
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noun long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants
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Feathers from the neck or back of a specially bred chicken that are wrapped around the hook or other wise attached to a fly to imitate parts of an insect, such as legs or segments of the body. Hackle tips are used also for the wings on certain flies.
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a feather, usually from the neck area of a chicken, can be any color (dyed or natural). Hackle quality, such as the stiffness of the individual fibers and amount of web, determines the type of fly tied with the hackle. Many hackles are grown specifically for fly tying.
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A bit of equipment used by wig makers and looks a bit like an implement of torture! The base has long, sharp metal needles pointing upwards. Used in wig making to mix hair colours, separate different hair lengths and detangle hair. Has a removable cover to protect the needles and nasty mishaps.
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