When the dog got angry, his hackles rose and he growled.
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Hackle
//ˈhækəl//
Synonyms for "hackle" (35 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (17)
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48 translations across 27 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- قَوْزَعَة noun (feather on the neck of bird)
Bulgarian
1 entries- чесалка за лен noun (instrument with pins)
Czech
2 entries- vochle noun (instrument with pins)
- vochlovat verb (dress flax or hemp)
Danish
2 entries- hegle noun (instrument with pins)
- hegle verb (dress flax or hemp)
Dutch
1 entries- hekel noun (instrument with pins)
Finnish
4 entries- häkilä noun (instrument with pins)
- häkilöin noun (instrument with pins)
- höyhenkoriste noun (feather plume on soldier's uniform)
- kaulahöyhen noun (feather on the neck of bird)
French
1 entries- séran noun (instrument with pins)
Galician
4 entries- restrelo noun (instrument with pins)
- ripanzo noun (instrument with pins)
- ripo noun (instrument with pins)
- sedeiro noun (instrument with pins)
German
3 entries- Hechel noun (instrument with pins)
- Hächle noun (instrument with pins)
- hecheln verb (dress flax or hemp)
Hungarian
1 entries- gereben noun (instrument with pins)
Ingrian
2 entries- häglä noun (instrument with pins)
- häglätä verb (dress flax or hemp)
Irish
2 entries- siostal noun (instrument with pins)
- taisteal noun (instrument with pins)
Italian
1 entries- diliscatoio noun (instrument with pins)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- vèushàngmài noun (feather on the neck of bird)
Latvian
1 entries- suseklis noun (instrument with pins)
Māori
1 entries- mōtihetihe noun (hair on the nape of the neck of animals)
Old Czech
1 entries- ochle noun (instrument with pins)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- طراق noun (instrument with pins)
- طرامق verb (dress flax or hemp)
Persian
1 entries- فلخمه noun (instrument with pins)
Portuguese
2 entries- ripador noun (instrument with pins)
- ripanço noun (instrument with pins)
Romanian
1 entries- darac noun (instrument with pins)
Romansch
1 entries- tscharesch noun (instrument with pins)
Russian
2 entries- хо́лка noun (hair on the nape of the neck of animals)
- чесалка noun (instrument with pins)
Spanish
1 entries- rastrillo noun (instrument with pins)
Swedish
2 entries- häckla noun (instrument with pins)
- häckla verb (dress flax or hemp)
Ukrainian
1 entries- плюмаж noun (feather plume on soldier's uniform)
Welsh
3 entries- caseg noun (instrument with pins)
- heislan noun (instrument with pins)
- heisyllt noun (instrument with pins)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
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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