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Hackie vs Hackle - What's the difference?

hackie | hackle |

As nouns the difference between hackie and hackle

is that hackie is (us) a taxicab driver while hackle is an instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp.

As a verb hackle is

to dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning.

hackie

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US) A taxicab driver.
  • *1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 9:
  • *:There was a taxi stand there and I yanked open the door. ‘He goes first,’ the hackie said, jerking a thumb at the cab ahead.
  • *1955 , (Rex Stout), "Die Like a Dog", , Bantam Books 1994 (ISBN 0553249592), p. 163:
  • *: If she kicked and screamed I would merely give the hackie another address.

    • hackle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp.
  • (fishing) A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather.
    • When the dog got angry his hackles rose and he growled.
  • A plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair.
  • A feather plume on some soldier's uniforms, especially the hat or helmet.
  • Any flimsy substance unspun, such as raw silk.

    • Usage notes

    In everyday speech, primarily used in phrase “to raise one’s hackles'”, meaning “to make one angry”, as in “It raises my ' hackles when you take that condescending tone.”.

    Synonyms

    * (instrument with pins) heckle, hatchel * (sense, plume on some soldier's uniforms) panache, plume

    Verb

    (hackl)
  • To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 155:
    • Then, with a smile that seemed to have all the freshness of the matutinal hour in it, she bent again to her work of hackling flax.
  • To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
  • (archaic) To tear asunder; to break into pieces.
    • The other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces. — Burke.