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Mackled vs Hackled - What's the difference?

mackled | hackled |

As verbs the difference between mackled and hackled

is that mackled is (mackle) while hackled is (hackle).

mackled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (mackle)

    • mackle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Verb

    (mackl)

    • References

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    hackled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hackle)

    • 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.