hackle

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

They met a young fellow, carrying a tea-cup in his hand, with hair that looked like hackled flax and with a grin that invited the confidence of all mankind.

From The Starbucks by Opie Percival Read

All that day, whilst the industrious grummelfuhr hackled and received good cheer in the form of krapfen, for hackling is hard work, Moro attended in the character of a kind but strict overseer.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 by Various

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

The next operations consist of "breaking," "scutching," and "hackling" and are now done by machinery.

From Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson

Then he picked up one of the bright stricks, that lay beside the hackling board, and was just about to depart in triumph, when Mr. Baggs banged the door and revealed himself.

From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts

You're well and hard, and can do your work as it should be done; but you must remember you've got no resources outside your hackling shop.

From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts