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Hackle vs Hackee - What's the difference?

hackle | hackee |

As nouns the difference between hackle and hackee

is that hackle is an instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp while hackee is (us|dialect) the chickaree or red squirrel or hackee can be the victim of a hacking attack; one whose computer system is broken into.

As a verb hackle

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

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.

    hackee

    English

    Etymology 1

    From its chittering cry when alarmed.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, dialect) The chickaree or red squirrel.
  • * 1865 , John George Wood, The illustrated natural history: Volume 1 (page 600)
    • The Hackee is one of the liveliest and briskest of quadrupeds, and by reason of its quick and rapid movements, has not inaptly been compared to the wren.
  • * 1894 , Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: Volume 21, Part 1
    • The hackee , which is pedimanous, tried to climb the bole.
  • (US, dialect) The chipmunk.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The victim of a hacking attack; one whose computer system is broken into.
  • * 1998 , Annette N. Markham, Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space (page 185)
    • On the other hand, the absence of identifying marks such as online or offline names and information is crucial when hacking, because the goal is to be unnoticed, not real, nonexistent from the point of view of the other (i.e., the hackee ).
  • * 2003 , Michael Chris Knapp, E-commerce: Real Issues and Cases (page 220)
    • Fortunately for the "hackee " company, its computer security professionals found "electronic fingerprints" left by the other firm's personnel during the hacker attack, which led, in turn, to the discovery of the stolen e-mail.
  • * 2011 , Frederick Ramsay, The Eye of the Virgin (page 139)
    • She had a hacker. The tables had been turned and she was the hackee .