(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.
Mackle
Definition:
(n.) Same Macule.
(v. t. & i.) To blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there were a double impression.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mackle left the company and carried on in the trade on his own, but is said to have remained loyal to his old friend.
(2) When customs officers uncovered the fraud for which Mackle was said to have been responsible, Fairbairn concocted a panic plan to cover it up.
(3) The unexpected visitor to Mackle's cold store last year was the environmental health officer (EHO) from the local district council, as Freeza's commercial director, Jim Fairbairn, recalled much later in a colourful appearance before British MPs investigating the horsemeat scandal at the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) select committee.
(4) This wasn't Fairbairn's first star turn – he had also played a prominent role in the Beef Tribunal, alongside Mackle.
(5) MPs also wanted to question Goodman himself, along with Mackle and McAdam, but they declined to come.
(6) Goodman said he had been unaware of any illegality and blamed Mackle as a rogue subcontractor in charge of a couple of his abattoir boning halls for falsifying weights while acting without authority.
(7) "I have a desire to do more business over time using the O2 proposition, but I wouldn't be naive enough to think I could reach the dizzy heights of 100%," says Feilim Mackle, the group's sales and service director.
(8) Mr Goodman was never friends with Mr Mackle and has not spoken to or met him in over 20 years, making the article's characterisation of him being an "old friend" difficult to sustain.
(9) The cold store was owned by Freeza Meats , a supermarket burger-making company founded some 40 years ago by a well-known meat man, Eamon Mackle, and still run by his family.
(10) Among other misapprehensions, the second article gives the impression of an axis of corporate and personal relationships between Eamon Mackle of Freeza Meats and ABP's chairman Larry Goodman.
(11) With the adulteration crisis spreading rapidly across Europe, drawing in more and more companies, the UK regulators remembered the parcel in the Mackles' Newry cold store and picked it up again.
(12) Had Mackle and Fairbairn engaged recently in similar activity to that of the 1980s, repacking and relabelling what turned out to be horse at Freeza Meats?