This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more
Meaning Of Hackle
n.
A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.
n.
Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk.
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.
n.
An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers.
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.