Crossword-Solution: HACKLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hackle | n. | A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel. |
| Hackle | n. | Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk. |
| Hackle | n. | One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used. |
| Hackle | n. | An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers. |
| Hackle | v. t. | To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel. |
| Hackle | v. t. | To tear asunder; to break in pieces. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “HACKLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Feathered fly for angling. | 1 answer |
| LONG neck feathers of bird | 1 answer |
| Long slender feather | 1 answer |
| NECK feathers of bird | 1 answer |
| Neck feather | 1 answer |
| Rooster's neck plumage | 1 answer |
| Turkey feather | 1 answer |
| cap decoration | 1 answer |
| plumage | 9 answers |
| Feathers | 15 answers |
| comb | 21 answers |
| Haggle | 25 answers |
| Fish bait | 27 answers |
| Feather ___. | 31 answers |
| BACK STARTER | 32 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HACKLE (5)
The fifth is the yellow or greenish fly, in May likewise: the body made of yellow wool; and the wings made of the red cock's hackle or tail.
Barker commends several sorts of the palmer-flies; not only those ribbed with silver and gold, but others that have their bodies all made of black; or some with red, and a red hackle.
Sometimes when he was at work with their horses, or intent on casting his brown hackle for a fish, she would watch him with eyes that were fuller of love than of understanding.
And then waterbeetles, and a red squirrel's tail-tip, which makes the best hackle in the world, and kicking grasshoppers, and a silver spoon with a wicked "gang" of hooks, which I detest and which, I am thankful to remember, the trout detested also.
Anglus.--Why then, _pazienza_, Scholar, or listen while I sing that sweet ditty of country contentment and an angler's life, writ by worthy Master Hackle long ago.
Quotes with HACKLE (1)
When I look up from my book, the wind has gained its full voice. This storm is the mad child of Father Time and Mother Nature. Wailing away in no predictable rhythm, their monstrous offspring’s throwing a hackle-raising temper tantrum. Underscoring the hideous howl, I detect another, quieter sound, a pitiable, weak whimper which has been all but completely drowned out by the epic volume of the screaming wind. With slowly dawning terror, I realize this cowardly voice is my own…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1957–2011).