Definition of hackle

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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..

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Unshackle :: Unshackle (v. t.) To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter.
Shackled :: Shackled (imp. & p. p.) of Shackl.
Loose :: Loose (a.) To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
Gyve :: Gyve (v. t.) To fetter; to shackle; to chain.
Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain..
Stricken :: Strick (n.) A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple..
Hackled :: Hackled (imp. & p. p.) of Hackl.
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter..
Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle..
Empty :: Empty (superl.) Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles..
Palmer :: Palmer (n.) Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle..
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc..
Shackle :: Shackle (v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars..
Bond :: Bond (n.) That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle..
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Stubble.
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action..
Iron :: Iron (v. t.) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
Gyve :: Gyve (n.) A shackle; especially, one to confine the legs; a fetter..
Hamper :: Hamper (n.) A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
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