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Part of Speech: noun
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Part of Speech: verb transitive
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Shemuel's horse, a sleek, weasel- bellied animal, with a wicked eye and a bunch o' hackle for a tail, swung round in the water, slinging the little Jew on his face in the mud, and then, with a vicious squeal, flung up his heels and cantered off, scattering a company of marines drawn up a hundred yards down the shore. - "Cardigan", Robert W. Chambers.
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If he made up his mind that he would have her, he must go armed with all implements, from the red hackle to the harpoon. - "The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist).
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The body is a furnace hackle, tied palmer; tail of barred wood- duck feather; wing snow- white, to which is added a blue cheek. - "Fly Fishing in Wonderland", Klahowya.