hackle

6 letters · noun · scores 1,400 in SpellHuntr

noun

long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants

verb

comb with a heckle

Hackle in a sentence

When the dog got angry, his hackles rose and he growled.

"COME ALONG YE GRASS-COMBERS, SHOW some hackle," David Ingram, striding ahead, turned back and called.

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