hackledadj.1
/ˈhakld/, U.S. /ˈhækəld/ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of fowls > [adjective] > methods of dressing fowls
hackleda1486
dumpoked1696
spitchcocked1861
a1486 (c1429) Menu Banquet Hen. VI in Archaeologia (1900) 57 57 (MED) Le secounde Course..Pecok hakklet, leche burnet.
2. Of a beehive: covered with a hackle (hackle n.1 3a). Now historical and rare.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [adjective] > type of fly
hackled1836
cocked1843
buzz1867
cock-winged1879
hackled1894
nymphing1989
1894 Brit. Bee Jrnl. 8 Feb. 56/2 Look over the hedge..and rest your eyes upon twenty-eight round, chubby, hackled skeps, all facing in one long line.
1907 T. Edwardes Bee-master of Warrilow v. 31 His were all old-fashioned hives of straw, hackled and potsherded just as they must have been any time since Saxon Alfred burned the cakes.
1998 F. Alston Hives & Honeybees in Signs & Symbols Hackled hives. Most Beehive inn signs depict the old straw hives which were in use throughout Britain until the latter part of the 19th century.
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hackledadj.2
/ˈhakld/, U.S. /ˈhækəld/ Having rough or jagged ridges; roughened; jagged.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [adjective] > cut
hacked?1440
ripped1552
bemangled1570
cut1594
woundedc1595
haggled1598
incised1598
gashed1602
hackled1611
carbonadoeda1616
gashya1625
sleft1627
mangled1779
haggly1825
the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough > made rough or ruffled
ruffled1440
hackled1611
crizzledc1639
asperated1677
roughened1715
roughed1758
rasped1864
sand-blasted1908
the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [adjective] > having notches
nicked?1523
natched1578
notched1586
chappy1611
hackled1611
choppya1616
notchy1843
1611 R. Peake tr. S. Serlio 4th Bk. Archit. f. 66v A man may couer a hackled wall [Ger. maur] ouer with cloth, and therein paynt what he will.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxv. 214 An old knife whose hackled edge..assisted Andy's own ingenuity in the tearing of his coat.
1869 R. B. Smyth Gold Fields Victoria 424 One projecting upper portion of it [sc. the meteorite] showed a jagged or hackled surface.
1930 F. E. Matthes Geol. Hist. Yosemite Valley (U.S. Dept. Interior Geol. Surv.) 95/2 The glacier..subjected the downstream face to quarrying mainly, leaving it hackled and abrupt.
1967 Appraisal Terminol. & Handbk. (Amer. Inst. Real Estate Appraisers) (ed. 5) 15 A rough hackled stone used for facing masonry walls.
2006 E. B. Alexander et al. Serpentine Geoecol. Western N. Amer. (2007) i. 20 Blocky serpentinized ultramafic has dull, dark gray-green coloration and rough, hackled fractured surfaces.
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hackledadj.3
/ˈhakld/, U.S. /ˈhækəld/ Of flax, hemp, or (occasionally) other fibres: prepared for spinning using a hackle or hackling machine. Cf. hackle v.2 1a.
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1611 in W. Mackay & G. S. Laing Rec. Inverness (1924) II. 85 Twenty four peicis of haicklit lint.
1724 R. Hall Observ. Methods used in Holland 36 The Hackler has five Stivers (which is Six-pence English Money) for every twelve Pounds of clean hackled Hemp.
1785 G. Washington Let. 5 Feb. in Papers (1992) Confederation Ser. II. 324 Mrs Washington begs you would get..10 or a dozen lbs of good hackled Flax for her.
1842 Sat. Mag. 5 Feb. 52/1 The hackled hemp being laid by in bundles, the spinner next operates on it, and produces threads or yarns.
1893 Mexican Tariff Modifications in Rep. Consuls U.S. 41 564 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (52nd Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Misc. Doc. 109) XVIII Hemp, flax, ramie, and other vegetable fibers not specified, crude or hackled.
1934 B. B. Robinson Flax-Fiber Production (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1728) 26 The hackled or dressed fiber is further combed repeatedly by being passed through several drawing frames.
1981 C. Kroll Whole Craft of Spinning 37/1 Place the bunch of hackled flax, or strick, on a card or other small table.
2014 S. Gaustad Pract. Spinner's Guide 72 Lay the hackled flax on one long edge of the towel and roll the line up in the towel.
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hackledadj.4
/ˈhakld/, U.S. /ˈhækəld/ 1. Of a bird: having a hackle (hackle n.2 2a). Frequently with preceding specifying word indicating the colour or type.Recorded earliest in extended use in ginger-hackled adj. at ginger n. and adj.1 Compounds 1b.
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1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Ginger hackled, red haired, a term borrowed from the cock pit, where red cocks are called gingers.
1788 J. F. Gmelin Linnaeus' Syst. Naturæ (ed. 13) I. 761 Hackled partridge.
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXXV. at Tetrao The hackled partridge of Latham. Found in China.
1888 I. K. Felch Poultry Culture ii. i. 195 All really light-colored, stripeless-hackled and saddled cockerels should be killed.
1911 J. H. Drevenstedt Standard-bred Orpingtons iii. 31/2 Most black breeders know that the greenest of pullets throw red-hackled or saddled cockerels.
1925 F. A. E. Crew Animal Genetics xi. 318 A..bare-necked fowl mated to an ordinarily hackled fowl will produce chickens 50 per cent. of which will be hackled.
2009 D. Scrivener Pop. Poultry Breeds xviii. 122/2 Their breast, legs and tail should ideally be glossy green-black, but some red (usually chestnut on lighter hackled males) does not matter.
2. Angling. Of a fishing fly: dressed with a hackle feather. Frequently with preceding specifying word indicating the manner of dressing or the colour of the feather. Cf. hackle v.4 1, hackle feather n. at hackle n.2 Compounds.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [adjective] > type of fly
hackled1836
cocked1843
buzz1867
cock-winged1879
hackled1894
nymphing1989
1836 E. Jesse Angler's Rambles 116 We changed our flies..from blue duns to the red-hackled palmer, but nothing would do.
1837 J. Kirkbride Northern Angler 2 Winged flies,..when well made, are infinitely more handsome than hackled ones.
1892 Daily News 14 Apr. 3/1 In Yorkshire hackled spider flies are the only wear.
1914 Forest & Stream 14 Mar. 344/3 Hackled flies should have good sharp cock's hackles.
1977 Field & Stream Dec. 108//3 Those wingless, sparsely hackled wet flies with which Leisenring and his disciples wrought such havoc among the trout.
2002 Fly Fisherman Feb. 43 Another deadly presentation for spider dry flies or any other heavily hackled crane-fly adult is the down-and-across presentation.
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