Word Meanings - HACKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence,

Additional info about word: HACKLE

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, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used. 4. An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers.

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  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• HATCHEL
  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. (more info) Dan. hegle, Sw. häkla, and prob. to E. hook. See Hook, and cf.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
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• MAKE
  A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
• ARTIFICIALITY
  The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
• MAKED
  Made. Chaucer.
• PECULIAR
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• NARROWER
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• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
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  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
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  From hence.
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