hackle

She had saluted incorrectly, and I think she was wearing the wrong hackle.

From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2020

The fly he used, and still relies on almost exclusively, is a brown pheasant-tail-and-partridge soft hackle.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 12, 2016

I can read for hours about bugs and knots and how to trick a fish with hair and hackle, but honestly, those are just the perks.

From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2014

A package of the most popular fly tying hackle for hair extensions, a black and white striped feather called grizzly saddle, would normally retail anywhere from $40 to $60.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2011

Every hackle on his body rose, and he knew that very soon she would, like all of her sisters before her, put to him the death-knell question “Where you been?”

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

The flax has since been broken, scutched, hackled, spun, and woven to create the fabric linen.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2021

Her Shirley is singular not in talent here but in the total unpredictability of her reactions – whether pushing out or drawing in – nevertheless grounded in guarded, hackled emotional need.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2020

Get her so hackled she’d make the wrong change for stamps.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

Like the wings of a sea bird striving with a tempest, all the sprays were frayed alike, and all the twigs hackled with the self-same pile.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

The other divisions of the kingdom, being hackled and torn to pieces, and separated from all their habitual means and even principles of union, cannot, for some time at least, confederate against her.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Rams QB Matthew Stafford’s wife Kelly apologized for throwing a pretzel at a hackling 49ers fan during Monday’s loss.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2021

“What in Frith’s name makes a noise like that?” said Bigwig, his great fur cap hackling between his ears.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Before the fibers are entirely free from the woody part of the plant they undergo the processes of beating, breaking, scutching, hackling, etc.

From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by William H. (William Henry) Dooley

Then came the hackling or hetcheling, and the fineness of the flax depended upon the number of hacklings, the fineness of the various hackles or hetchels or combs, and the dexterity of the operator.

From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

Then he picked up one of the bright stricks, that lay beside the hackling board, and was just about to depart in triumph, when Mr. Baggs banged the door and revealed himself.

From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts