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Hackle (disambiguation)

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Hackle may refer to one of the following.

  • Hackle, a feather plume attached to a headdress
  • Hackle (animal), erectile plumage or hair in the neck area
  • Hackle (wig making), a metal plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair
  • Heckling (flax), the process of dividing the ribbons of flax fibre into finer parallel filaments ready for drawing and spinning
  • Heckling comb, a tool for heckling flax
  • a feather or feathers wrapped around the shank of a fishing hook of an artificial fly for fly fishing