hackle

As nouns the difference between hackle and carding

is that hackle is an instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp while carding is a piece of wool rolled by a carder (carding machine).

As verbs the difference between hackle and carding

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

As nouns the difference between hackle and card

is that hackle is an instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp while card is herd.

As a verb hackle

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

As nouns the difference between hackle and saddle

is that hackle is an instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp while saddle is a seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal.

As verbs the difference between hackle and saddle

is that hackle is to dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning while saddle is to put a saddle on an animal.

In transitive terms the difference between hack and hackle

is that hack is to chop or cut down in a rough manner while hackle is to separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.

As a noun 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.

As nouns the difference between hackler and hackle

is that hackler is a worker who separated the coarse part of flax or hemp with a hackle; a flax-dresser 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.

As nouns the difference between hackle and shackle

is that hackle is an instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp while shackle is a restraint fit over a human or animal appendage, such as a wrist, ankle or finger. Usually used in plural, to indicate a pair joined by a chain; a hobble.

As verbs the difference between hackle and shackle

is that hackle is to dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning while shackle is to restrain using shackles; to place in shackles.

As verbs the difference between hackled and hackle

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

As a noun hackle is

an instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp.

As nouns the difference between hackle and huckle

is that hackle is an instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp while huckle is (label) the hip, the haunch.

As a verb hackle

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