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hackle

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈhækəl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted acehklStarts with HEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. comb with a heckle

Word origin

From Middle English hakle (compare the compound meshakele), from Old English hæcla, hacele, from Proto-Germanic *hakulǭ, equivalent to hack + -le. Cognate with Dutch hekel, German Hechel.

Used in a sentence

  • When the dog got angry, his hackles rose and he growled.
  • "COME ALONG YE GRASS-COMBERS, SHOW some hackle," David Ingram, striding ahead, turned back and called.
  • Then, with a smile that seemed to have all the freshness of the matutinal hour in it, she bent again to her work of hackling flax.

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