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Definition: Hackle |
HackleNoun1. Long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants. Verb1. Comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | After scutching the fibres are usually combed or hackled by drawing them through sets of pins. Source: European Union. (references) |
| To comb, as flax or hemp. Also, hatchel, heckle. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The device used to clean bast fibers such as flax, hemp, etc. Iron teeth are set in a board so that the stock may be combed for line fibers and tow fibers. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: HackleSynonyms: hatchel (v), heckle (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disjunction | Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice. |
Sharpness | Beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hackle |
| English words defined with "hackle": Flax comb ♦ Hackled, Hackling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hackle": HACKLER, DOLL WIGS. (references) |
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 | Cut; chop; axe; cleave; clip; cube; dice; divide; fell; fragment; hack; hackle; hash; hew; lop; mangle; mince; sever; shear; slash; truncate; whack. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "hackle" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hackle | Last name | 130 | 63,585 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "hackle": get one's hackle up ♦ hackle up ♦ saddle hackle. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hackle": hackle-raising. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hackle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qime zverku të qenit, pupla në zverk, pres keq e keq (hack), krehër për li e kërp, kreh li e kërp, kashylytë, gjymtoj (cripple, disable, dismember, haggle, lame, limb, maim, mutilate). (various references) | |
Arabic | ذبابة صنعية, ريش العنق, شعر عنق الكلب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разчесвам (raise, ripple), косми по врата и гърба на куче, гребен за разчесване на лен, насичам на едро, изкуствена муха (coachman, dry fly, mayfly), дълги пера на шията на петел. (various references) | |
Chinese | 长羽毛 (hackles). (various references) | |
Czech | drhlen. (various references) | |
Dutch | haaietanden (serration hackle, shark teeth). (various references) | |
Finnish | häkilöidä, häkilä. (various references) | |
French | sérancer (hatchel), sérançoir, séran, regayoir, regayer (hatchel), plume de cou chien, plume de cou, mouche, concasser, affinoir. (various references) | |
German | zerkleinern (atomize, break up, chop up, crush, cut up, hash up, masticate, shred), riffel (flax comb), nackengefider, lange nackenfeder, fell im hacken, durchhecheln. (various references) | |
Greek | ξαίνω (card), λαναρίζω (card, comb wool). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסרק פשתים, לקרוע ל'זרים (dismember, hack, pull to pieces, rip up, shred), לקצץ (chop, clip, cut down, hack, lop, maul, prune, scale down, slash, whittle down), לסרוק פשתים, סיבי 'לם, וצות "צואר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | gereben (comb), nyaktoll. (various references) | |
Italian | penna del collo. (various references) | |
Manx | heckyl, dossan (bunch, cockade, small cluster, spray, tuft), breddal. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acklehay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | retalhar (chine, hack, shred), passar com o pente, mutilar (cripple, disable, garble, hack, maim, mangle, mutilate, truncate), isca artificial (buzz, doctor, spoon), gramar (grass), gramadeira (kill-devil, scutch, scutcher), espadelar (deckle, heckle, scutch, swingle), espadela (kill-devil, scutcher, swingle), cortar (bite, chaff, chip, chop, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut down, delete, detruncate, fell, gash, gouge, hack, hand back, hew, hew down, incise, indent, interrupt, intersect, let by, log, lop, lumber, mow, poll, pollard, sever, shave, shear, shut off, slice, slit, strike off, strike out, whittle), corda (clothes line, gimp, guy, halter, line, rope, spring, string, tie, twine), coragem (adventure, audaciousness, audacity, bravery, courage, daring, doughtiness, gallantry, guts, hardihood, hardiness, heart, intrepidity, kill-devil, manfulness, manhood, manliness, nerve, pluck, prowess, resolution, sand, spunk, stoutness), cardar (fluff, heckle, teasel, teazle). (various references) | |
Romanian | strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), pieptãna cu ragila, guler (collar, head, neck, neckband, ruffle), darac (card, carding comb, Reed, woolcard), dãrãci (card, comb), ciopârţi (dismember, hack, mangle, slash). (various references) | |
Russian | рубить (chisel, chop, cut, cut down, fall, fell, hack, hew, mangle, mince), чесать лен, чесалка (comb, ripple), шерсть на спине собаки, гребень (arris, cam, comb, crest, crown, flange, peak, pectination, ridge, ruff, tongue), откалывать (chip, sliver, split off, unpin), мыканица, перья на шее птицы, перья (plumage), искусственная приманка (kill-devil). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | perije na vratu petla, mušica za pecanje (spinner), kostrešiti se. (various references) | |
Spanish | pelo erizado. (various references) | |
Swedish | hackelfluga, häckla (cavil at, heckle), borst (bristle). (various references) | |
Thai | ตั"อย่างหยาบ, หวี (comb), ขนยาวรอบคอไก่หรือนก. (various references) | |
Turkish | horozun boynundaki uzun tüyler, keten tarağından geçirmek, keten tarağı (hatchel, ripple), boyun tüyleri (ruff, ruffle). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рубати (chaff, chop, cut down, fell, hack, hew, mangle), чесати (card, comb, ripple), чесалка (comb, ripple), волосся (fell, hair, locks, wig). (various references) | |
Welsh | heislan (hatchel). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hackle": hackled, hackler, hacklers, hackles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "hackle": ramshackle, shackle, unshackle. (additional references) | |
Words containing "hackle": shacklebone, shacklebones, shackled, shackler, shacklers, shackles, unshackled, unshackles. (additional references) | |
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"Hackle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hackley, Hadklu, hankel, Haschke, Haskala, heckel, hekle, Henckel, hicke, Hickie, Hickl, Hickley, Hucke, Huckel, jackle, Jeckle, phacili, rackle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hackle" (pronounced ha"kul) |
| 4 | -a" k u l | cackle, crackle, grackle, tackle, jackal, shackle, unshackle. |
| 3 | -k u l | acoustical, aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, alphabetical, analytical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, article, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, barnacle, biblical, bicycle, bifocal, biochemical, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, brickle, buckle, categorical, cervical, chemical, Chronicle, chronological, chuckle, circle, classical, clavicle, clerical, clinical, comical, commonsensical, conical, coracle, cortical, critical, cubicle, cuticle, cycle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, debacle, dermatological, diabolical, diacritical, dialectical, domical, ducal, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encircle, encyclical, epidemiological, epochal, equivocal, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, etymological, evangelical, fanatical, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geophysical, geopolitical, gonococcal, grammatical, granduncle, graphical, gynecological, heckle, helical, heretical, heterocercal, hierarchical, historical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypercritical, hypocritical, hypothetical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, impractical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, spherical, sprinkle, statistical, stereotypical, stickle, strategical, suckle, surgical, symmetrical, tabernacle, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, tentacle, testicle, theatrical, theological, inimical, ironical, knuckle, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, local, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, matriarchal, mechanical, medical, meikle, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, meteorological, methodical, methodological, metrical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, morphological, motorcycle, muckle, musical, mystical, mythical, mythological, nautical, neoclassical, neurological, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, numerical, obstacle, ontological, optical, Oracle, oratorical, ornithological, paradoxical, particle, pathological, patriarchal, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, photochemical, physical, physiological, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, popsicle, practical, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, pumpernickel, puritanical, quizzical, rabbinical, radical, radiological, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, rhetorical, ruckle, runkle, sabbatical, satirical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, shekel, sickle, skeptical, sociological, theoretical, tickle, tinkle, topical, toxicological, trickle, tricycle, tropical, twinkle, typical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncle, uncritical, uneconomical, unequivocal, unethical, unicycle, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, vocal, whimsical, Winkle, wrinkle, zoological. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-k-l" | |
-1 letter: chalk, chela, hacek, leach. | |
-2 letters: ache, alec, cake, calk, each, hack, hake, hale, heal, heck, kale, lace, lack, lake, lakh, leak, lech. | |
-3 letters: ace, ale, cel, elk, hae, kae, kea, lac, lea, lek. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, al, eh, el, ha, he, ka, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-k-l" | |
+1 letter: bechalk, chalked, hackled, hackler, hackles, kolache, shackle. | |
+2 letters: bechalks, chalkier, hacklers, hacklier, havelock, headlock, klatches, kreplach, latchkey, shackled, shackler, shackles, shellack. | |
+3 letters: bechalked, blackhead, blockhead, chalkiest, checkable, hackliest, havelocks, headlocks, kalanchoe, klatsches, latchkeys, marchlike, shacklers, shellacks, shellback, shockable, shoeblack, unshackle, whaleback. | |
+4 letters: alkahestic, backhauled, backlashed, backlasher, backlashes, bechalking, blackheads, blackheart, blockheads, hammerlock, kalanchoes, ramshackle, shellacked, shellbacks, shoeblacks, unshackled, unshackles, whalebacks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Sounds 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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