hackle

hack·le ¹  (hkl)

n.

1. Any of the long, slender, often glossy feathers on the neck of a bird, especially a male domestic fowl.

2. hackles The erectile hairs along the back of the neck of an animal, especially of a dog.

3.

a. A tuft of cock feathers trimming an artificial fishing fly.

b. A hackle fly.

tr.v. hack·led, hack·ling, hack·les

To trim (an artificial fishing fly) with a hackle.

Idiom:

get (one's) hackles up

To be extremely insulted or irritated.

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[Middle English hakell, cloak, skin, plumage, possibly from Old English hacele, cloak, mantle.]

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hack·le ²  (hkl)

v. hack·led, hack·ling, hack·les

v.tr.

To chop roughly; mangle by hacking.

v.intr.

To hack.

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[Frequentative of hack.]

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hackle [ˈhæk^əl]

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) any of the long slender feathers on the necks of poultry and other birds

2. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Angling) Angling

a.  parts of an artificial fly made from hackle feathers, representing the legs and sometimes the wings of a real fly

b.  short for hackle fly

3. (Military) a feathered ornament worn in the headdress of some British regiments

4. (Engineering / Tools) a steel flax comb

vb (tr)

(Engineering / Tools) to comb (flax) using a hackle See also hackles

[C15 hakell, probably from Old English; variant of heckle; see hatchel]

hackler  n

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	hackle - long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants feather, plumage, plume - the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds saddle feather, saddle hackle - a long narrow feather on the back (saddle) of a domestic fowl
Verb	1.	hackle - comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax" hatchel, heckle comb - straighten with a comb; "comb your hair"

Translations

hackle

n (Orn) → lange Nackenfeder; (= plumage also) → Nackengefieder nt; (pl: of dog etc) → Fell nt → im Nacken; the dog’s hackles rose → dem Hund sträubte sich das Fell; his hackles rose at the very idea → bei dem bloßen Gedanken sträubte sich alles in ihm; to get somebody’s hackles up, to raise somebody’s hackles → jdn reizen, jdn auf die Palme bringen (inf)