(n.) A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.
(n.) Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk.
(n.) One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used.
(n.) An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers.
(v. t.) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
(v. t.) To tear asunder; to break in pieces.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those differences can be summarized as follows: (1) the occurrence of pronounced, highly curved hackle marks, which could in many instances be mistaken for conchoidal marks;(2)the appearance of the beveled edges bordering the cratering on the side opposite origin of force; and (3) a more apparent tendency toward an inverse relationship of muzzle velocity and energy to radial fracture length and degree of curving along crater boundaries.
(2) Scholars on both sides of the Pacific say they are alarmed at the potential for US-China relations to break down if Trump continues to raise Beijing’s hackles over sensitive issues such as Taiwan.
(3) Those views have raised hackles among some US conservatives.
(4) A homogeneous batch of dew retted hackled flax was divided into two portions.
(5) The decision raised hackles both in Washington, where it was feared it would tarnish the credibility of the war effort, and in Afghanistan, where many local people concluded the Americans were not serious about rooting out corruption and misgovernance.
(6) Defenders of free speech have had their hackles raised and Boris laughs all the way to City Hall.
(7) It does like to nudge you towards paying, which may raise hackles of some fans of the original.
(8) David Cameron raised the hackles of critics when he announced the idea at an EU summit last month , with some comparing it to Australia’s controversial interception policy.
(9) More often, standups raise hackles not by Gervais-level crassness, but by sacrificing propriety in their race to be funniest first when news breaks.
(10) Anything that looks like a return to the Dickensian workhouse raises hackles.
(11) On one of the biggest issues facing Europe – policy towards Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin of Russia – she and Italy are seen as being overly pro-Russian, raising hackles, especially in eastern Europe where Poland's foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, would also like the job.
(12) I think we were just scratchy and hackles up and defensive.
(13) At least one reporter has made the mistake recently of referring to him as a "wheeler-dealer" prompting him to stomp off in disgust, his hackles raised by all the tired barrow-boy, Arthur Daley analogies.
(14) When Bill Gates handpicked Dryden to be his head of agriculture in 2010, he came with a CV certain to raise the hackles of anyone who distrusted global agribusiness.
(15) Hastings Law professor Ahmed Ghappour recently called that effort “possibly the broadest expansion of extraterritorial surveillance power since the FBI’s inception.” But the FBI is trying to alter those rules without raising privacy advocates’ hackles (though luckily some have caught on ).
(16) These would raise hackles with several countries, the Conservative MEP Ian Duncan warned.
(17) BitTorrent (the company) works with some artists to distribute music and multimedia bundles for free, but its name still raises hackles within the music industry over the impact of BitTorrent (the technology) on piracy.
(18) So what's really raising hackles is not the number of people who cannot communicate or be communicated with.
(19) Party leader Natalie Bennett has raised hackles by backing a new school in north London.
(20) That has also raised hackles everywhere else because of perceived high-handed prescriptions from Berlin combined with Merkel's maddening caution and refusal to be rushed in a crisis.
Heckle
Definition:
(n. & v. t.) Same as Hackle.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I was at a comedy club trying to do my act, and I got heckled and I took it badly and went into a rage," Richards said.
(2) The performance was not without some good‑natured heckling, largely involving bellowed chants of "We want you to stay" from the assembled playing staff.
(3) Actually, I had betrayed the seriousness of what had happened, because my story ignored the fact that I had been genuinely frightened and in a degree of danger during the heckling.
(4) I told her how sorry I was, and that I thought she was heckling because she hated my show.
(5) Malcolm Turnbull heckled by Liberals as anger lingers over Tony Abbott's ouster Read more Villatora, who had earlier warned the NSW state council about the party increasingly resembling “a closed shop”, said the limited trials between now and 2019 were an “important step towards a fully democratic party”.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nicky Morgan heckled at NASUWT conference – video No one had consulted, it seems, the hundreds of Tory-controlled councils that regard running education as one of their big jobs.
(7) One said: “We should read the bills before we pass the bills.” There were heckles from Republicans.
(8) In Riga, a city with a majority of ethnic Russians, a small band of protesters heckled the marchers with calls such as: "Shame on you", "A disgrace" and "What is there to be proud of?"
(9) Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney was heckled repeatedly during his closing rally of the Iowa campaign, with shouts that he is ignoring the poor and is too close to Wall Street.
(10) At one point, Watson was heckled by an audience member.
(11) Seann Walsh: It's bad when someone heckles you by shouting out "Taxi!".
(12) Helena says there are reports that the mission chiefs were also heckled as they arrived, but there are no further incidents reported.
(13) The funniest heckle I’ve ever had When I was a larger man, I went onstage wearing a stripy T-shirt and someone shouted: “Horizontal stripes are a fat man no-no!” Harsh but fair.
(14) I want you to be very happy.” But the politeness very quickly faded as he interrupted, heckled, rolled his eyes and tried to throw the authority figure off her game with lies.
(15) CND stewards threw out the hecklers just as Labour party conference stewards had thrown out CND's Walter Wolfgang when he heckled Jack Straw the previous month.
(16) Republican healthcare bill limps into recess with no vote in sight Read more Amid heckling and chanting, Cassidy attempted to describe his efforts to draft new legislation and answered angry questioning about the Senate healthcare plan which did not come to a vote this week , after party leaders realised they did not have enough votes to pass it.
(17) But in Dundee’s Overgate shopping centre, where Murphy was heckled by yes supporters during his pro-union speaking tour last summer, the impact of Scottish Labour’s recent pronouncements on welfare, fracking or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership appears minimal.
(18) They call me names – some of them even heckle me at public meetings.
(19) This is my objection to the reforms being proposed – whether from the inside by threatening exit, or by exiting and heckling from the sidelines.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Confrontations with protesters in Reno were few compared with other campaign stops, leaving Trump begging for a protester to heckle.