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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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Ramshackle :: Ramshackle (v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage.

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..

Hackle :: Hackle (v. t.) To tear asunder; to break in pieces.

Unshackle :: Unshackle (v. t.) To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter.

Gyve :: Gyve (v. t.) To fetter; to shackle; to chain.

Iron :: Iron (v. t.) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.

Heckle :: Heckle (n. & v. t.) Same as Hackle.

Shackle :: Shackle (v. t.) Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.

Coupler :: Coupler (n.) One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars..

Shackled :: Shackled (imp. & p. p.) of Shackl.

Ramshackle :: Ramshackle (a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.

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..

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis..

Loose :: Loose (a.) To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.

Dub :: Dub (v. t.) To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles..

Jew''s-harp :: Jew's-harp (n.) The shackle for joining a chain cable to an anchor.

Stricken :: Strick (n.) A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.

Unfetter :: Unfetter (v. t.) To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind..

Trammel :: Trammel (v. t.) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

Hackle :: Hackle (n.) A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel..