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Shackled vs Hackled - What's the difference?

shackled | hackled |

As verbs the difference between shackled and hackled

is that shackled is past tense of shackle while hackled is past tense of hackle.

As an adjective shackled

is restrained by shackles, chained.

shackled

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Restrained by shackles, chained.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (shackle)

    • 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.