An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp.
By extension (because the hackles of a rooster are lifted when it is angry), the hair on the nape of the neck in dogs and other animals; also used figuratively for humans.
Any flimsy substance unspun, such as raw silk.
A feather plume on some soldier's uniforms, especially the hat or helmet.
A type of jagged crack extending inwards from the broken surface of a fractured material.
A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather.
A plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair.
One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster.
To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning.
A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
An act of sorting.
A type.
An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
Manner; form of being or acting.
A general type.
A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).
A good-looking woman.
To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
To attack physically.
To geld.
To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.