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hackle

DEFINITIONS OF: hackle

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n long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants

Types:
saddle feather, saddle hackle
a long narrow feather on the back (saddle) of a domestic fowl
Type of:
feather, plumage, plume
the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds

v comb with a heckle

Synonyms:
hatchel, heckle
Type of:
comb
straighten with a comb
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