hackle
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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
THE DRY FLY is the classic type of artificial fly made by winding a hackle feather around the shaft of a hook to get that buggy look.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2015
What raises my hackle feathers is the insistence of some writers that a given drink must be made with exactly their specified proportions.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2013
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
Elnora's hair is bright and wavy, but yours is silky as hackled flax.
From A Girl of the Limberlost by Stratton-Porter, Gene
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 Burke, Edmund
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
Upon the staircase he passed a window and, glancing through it, he saw a light in the hackling shop.
From The Spinners by Phillpotts, Eden
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 Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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 Phillpotts, Eden
