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• 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,
• RAMSHACKLE
  Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair. There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. Thackeray.
• UNSHACKLE
  To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter. Addison.
• HAMSHACKLE
  To fasten by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb.
• SHACKLE
  Stubble. Pegge.