Antonyms for hackled

Grammar : Verb

Spell : hak-uh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhæk əl

Definition of hackled

Origin : Old English hacele "cloak, mantle" (cf. Old High German hachul, Gothic hakuls "cloak;" Old Norse hekla "hooded frock"). Sense of "bird plumage" is first recorded early 15c., though this might be from unrelated Middle English hackle "flax comb" (see heckle (n.)) on supposed resemblance of comb to ruffled feathers. Metaphoric extension found in raise one's hackles (as a cock does when angry) is first recorded 1881.

As in chip : verb knock a piece out of
As in chop : verb cut up with tool
As in clean : verb make undirty, uncluttered
As in comb : verb arrange hair

Example sentences :

Her hair looked like hackled flax and her eyes were large and gray.
Extract from : « An Arkansas Planter » by Opie Percival Read

Elnora's hair is bright and wavy, but yours is silky as hackled flax.
Extract from : « A Girl Of The Limberlost » by Gene Stratton Porter

June Dun—a feather from Dottrel's back, hackled on a body of blue Rabbit's fur and drab silk, dun hackle for legs.
Extract from : « The Teesdale Angler » by R Lakeland

When sufficiently beaten it is dried, and needs no other preparation, until it is hackled and spun into yarn for weaving.
Extract from : « An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1 » by David Collins

I'm not at all sure that humanity oughtn't to be hackled like weeds, and so toughen its hold on life.
Extract from : « The Tyranny of the Dark » by Hamlin Garland

The 'gator was taken with a "fly" tied on a shark-hook, the hackled body being a squirrel's tail, with wings of a small seagull.
Extract from : « Fishing With The Fly » by Charles F. Orvis and Others

The line, after it is hackled, is placed on a spread board; and the process is called spreading.
Extract from : « Clothing and Health » by Helen Kinne

Body, bright green peacock's harl; hackled with a soft silver-gray hen's feather; hook No. 0, Kendal scale.
Extract from : « Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others » by James Alexander Henshall

It was on a Monday that Susan and I hackled fifty pounds of flax, and tired we were when the day was come to an end.
Extract from : « Ruth of Boston » by James Otis

The hackled flax, however, is taken direct to the preparing department.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 6 » by Various

Synonyms for hackled

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