When the dog got angry, his hackles rose and he growled.
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Hackle
/ˈhækəl/
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12 entriesflax hacklehackle featherhackle fibershackle flaxhackle framehackle processhackle woolhackle yarnhackling machineneck hacklerooster hacklesilk hackle
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Suppose it happened to be the case that the majority of individuals raised their hackles only when they were truly intending to go on for a very long time in the war of attrition. The obvious counterploy would evolve: individuals would give up immediately when an opponent raised his hackles.
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"COME ALONG YE GRASS-COMBERS, SHOW some hackle," David Ingram, striding ahead, turned back and called.
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Then, with a smile that seemed to have all the freshness of the matutinal hour in it, she bent again to her work of hackling flax.
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