hackle
noun
one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers.
hackler
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a word derived from
hackle.
Example Sentences
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He was the father of Levi Baggs, the hackler, and people said he was never seen except on the occasion of a funeral.
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
"He allows us to produce a fat lot of things to our own undoing," answered the hackler.
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
Spread upon this leathern roller was the hemp tow—that mass of short material which Levi Baggs, the hackler, pruned away from his long strides.
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
Already Joe Ash began to grow restive under Levi's criticisms, and dimly to feel that the old hackler was better away.
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
My heart aches for myself," answered the hackler, "because I very well remember what my own childhood was.
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
