hackle
pronunciation
How to pronounce hackle in British English:
UK ['hækl]
How to pronounce hackle in American English:
US ['hækəl]
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- Noun:
- long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants
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- Verb:
- comb with a heckle
Word Origin
- hackle (n.)
- Old English hacele "coat, cloak, vestment, mantle" (cognate with Old High German hachul, Gothic hakuls "cloak;" Old Norse hekla "hooded frock"), of uncertain origin. The same word with a sense of "bird plumage" is first recorded early 15c., though this might be from unrelated Middle English hackle "flax comb" (see heckle (n.)) on supposed resemblance of comb to ruffled feathers, or from an unrecorded continental Germanic word. Metaphoric extension found in phrases such as raise (one's) hackles (as a cock does when angry) is by 1881.
Example
- 1. They manually put wool into the hackle that combs and winds it round on special reels .
- 2. As one of the sales departments of beijing telecom , in the condition of full-service business , one of the most important task for east district bureau is to hackle the relationship of existing business and new business and find the new way to develop full-service business .
- 3. This paper is to hackle the research about this problem from two aspects -- the supply of institution and public choice , show the deficiency of existing research and the way of mending , and set up a new frame of academic research and analysis about the problem of land-lost peasants .
- 4. After confirming the study object , in the second part of the thesis I made a rough hackle to the development of enterprise training system from the period of meiji restoration and analyzed briefly the characters and causes of enterprise training institution in japan on every different period .