hackle
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She had saluted incorrectly, and I think she was wearing the wrong hackle.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2020
The soft hackle makes it a wet fly; you fish it beneath the surface.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 12, 2016
THE DRY FLY is the classic type of artificial fly made by winding a hackle feather around the shaft of a hook to get that buggy look.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2015
A package of the most popular fly tying hackle for hair extensions, a black and white striped feather called grizzly saddle, would normally retail anywhere from $40 to $60.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2011
Every hackle on his body rose, and he knew that very soon she would, like all of her sisters before her, put to him the death-knell question “Where you been?”
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
The flax has since been broken, scutched, hackled, spun, and woven to create the fabric linen.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2021
Her Shirley is singular not in talent here but in the total unpredictability of her reactions – whether pushing out or drawing in – nevertheless grounded in guarded, hackled emotional need.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2020
Get her so hackled she’d make the wrong change for stamps.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
June Dun—a feather from Dottrel's back, hackled on a body of blue Rabbit's fur and drab silk, dun hackle for legs.
From The Teesdale Angler by R. Lakeland
Like the wings of a sea bird striving with a tempest, all the sprays were frayed alike, and all the twigs hackled with the self-same pile.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
Rams QB Matthew Stafford’s wife Kelly apologized for throwing a pretzel at a hackling 49ers fan during Monday’s loss.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
“What in Frith’s name makes a noise like that?” said Bigwig, his great fur cap hackling between his ears.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Levi Baggs, the hackler, proceeded presently to weigh his material and was taking it over the bridge to the hackling shop when he met John Best, the foreman.
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
The next operations consist of "breaking," "scutching," and "hackling" and are now done by machinery.
From Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson
Upon the staircase he passed a window and, glancing through it, he saw a light in the hackling shop.
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
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