hack·le 1  (hāk'əl) 
n. Any of the long, slender, often glossy feathers on the neck of a bird, especially a male domestic fowl. hackles The erectile hairs along the back of the neck of an animal, especially of a dog. A tuft of cock feathers trimming an artificial fishing fly. A hackle fly.
tr.v.
hack·led, hack·ling, hack·les
To trim (an artificial fishing fly) with a hackle.
[Middle English hakell, cloak, skin, plumage, possibly from Old English hacele, cloak, mantle.] |
