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Definition of Hackles
1. Noun. A feeling of anger and animosity. "Having one's hackles or dander up"
Definition of Hackles
1. Noun. (plural of hackle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hackles
1. hackle [v] - See also: hackle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hackles
Literary usage of Hackles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Salmon Fly: How to Dress it and how to Use it by George M. Kelson (1895)
"hackles. For a body-hackle, shape is a quality of importance, ... In all hackles,
save and except those of the Eagle and Spey-cock i get rid of an nu£f at ..."
2. Modern Flax, Hemp and Jute Spinning and Twisting: A Practical Handbook for by Herbert R. Carter (1907)
"If large double pieces are being worked a 1^-inch pin is sometimes used, but in
order that the hackles may not be weakened it is desirable to employ a ..."
3. The Salmon Fly: How to Dress it and how to Use it by George M. Kelson (1895)
"Knee-cap hackles (a cross between Malay and Polish fowls). ... Monkey hackles.
A transparent grey hackle having a series of curiously-shaped dark blotches ..."
4. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1896)
"Two red game cock hackles at shoulder. Ribbing Hackle. ... hackles.—Two pale
ginger cock hackles. Body.—Black silk ribbed with fine silver wire. Whisk. ..."
5. Echoes from the Backwoods: Or, Sketches of Transatlantic Life by Richard George Augustus Levinge (1846)
"Boil the turmeric and steep the hackles therein (pigs' fur may be boiled in this).
... NB The hackles to make sooty olive must be a natural black, ..."
6. Ures̓ Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear by Andrew Ure (1860)
"The flax is hackled on each side, or each graduation of hackles, by reversing the
... The tow, or short fibre, is thrown off the hackles by stripper rods, ..."
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