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hackles
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Wikipedia
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The hackles are the long, fine feathers which are found on the backs of certain types of domestic chicken . They are often brightly coloured, especially on roosters . These feathers are often used as fly lures . The term can also apply to the erectile hairs ...
WordNet
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n. a feeling of anger and animosity; "having one's hackles or dander up" [syn: dander ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB raise ▪ In the United States, the mere idea raises hackles . ▪ The script fits Steve Forbes, whose self-financed run for the Republican presidential nomination is raising hopes and hackles . ▪ But something has happened ...
Wiktionary
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n. (plural of hackle English)
Usage examples of hackles.
He felt the hackles on the back of his neck rising, despite a conscious effort to make them lie flat.
The courtiers quickly leaped aside when they saw the look on his face, the parted beak, the raised hackles, the anger in his eyes.
Lest an underling of no consequence sense his distress, the Lord of Shadowfane smoothed his long hackles and sat.
Their stirrings and rustlings caused Scait to dash his jaws, and the long hackles trembled at his neck.
The sound sent chills up and down Maverick’s spine and set his hackles standing on end.
Fighting for control over her emotions, she lowered her hackles, crouched down on her belly, and laid her head on her forepaws.
Then did the OldMother fall on the Great Pack, her hackles as tall as great trees, her fangs gleaming like the sun.
At least thirty young males were marching four abreast down the middle of the street, ears flat, hackles raised, fangs bared in menacing snarls.
The noise reverberated in his chest, and with raised hackles and curled lip, he was nothing Blaine wanted to be on the wrong side of.
The dog quieted, although his hackles remained spiked above his shoulders.
Mage's mood infected him and he walked along on his toes, his hackles slightly raised, as he looked for something at which to growl.
The hackles of her short, slick coat raised a dark line at her shoulders and down her spine.
Sunny said to her—said to the door, actually, and Brenna jerked to look at her with no little dread—but the dog's hackles were right where they belonged, smooth and slick all the way down her backbone.
And BultBult reads his master's snarling and raised hackles and puts it all into wordsI've never heard such a talkative Wickan as that mangled old man.
And Bult - Bult reads his master's snarling and raised hackles and puts it all into words—I've never heard such a talkative Wickan as that mangled old man.