hackle
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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
When sufficiently beaten it is dried, and needs no other preparation, until it is hackled and spun into yarn for weaving.
June Dun—a feather from Dottrel's back, hackled on a body of blue Rabbit's fur and drab silk, dun hackle for legs.
From The Teesdale Angler by R. Lakeland
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
I should have softened it first by a hackling process, as we used to hackle the hemp in Kentucky; but I did not.
From Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
Upon the staircase he passed a window and, glancing through it, he saw a light in the hackling shop.
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
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
