Hackled vs Cackled - What's the difference?
hackled | cackled |
(hackle)
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.
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.
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:
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.
(cackle)
The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg
A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.
To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
* Shakespeare
To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.
*, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
As verbs the difference between hackled and cackled
is that hackled is (hackle) while cackled is (cackle).hackled
English
Verb
(head)hackle
English
Noun
(en noun)- When the dog got angry his hackles rose and he growled.
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, plumeVerb
(hackl)- 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.
- The other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces. — Burke.
cackled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*cackle
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en-verb)- When every goose is cackling .
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- (Johnson)