different between hackle vs shackle

English

Etymology

From Middle English hakle (compare the compound meshakele), from Old English hæcla, hacele, from Proto-Germanic *hakul?, equivalent to hack +? -le. Cognate with Dutch hekel, German Hechel.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?hæk?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?hæk?l/
• Rhymes: -æk?l

Noun

hackle (plural hackles)

1. An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp. [from 15th c.]

   Synonyms: heckle, hatchel

2. (usually now in the plural) One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster. [from 15th c.]
3. (fishing) A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather. [from 17th c.]
4. (usually now in the plural) 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. [from 19th c.]
5. A type of jagged crack extending inwards from the broken surface of a fractured material.
6. A plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair. [from 20th c.]
7. A feather plume on some soldier's uniforms, especially the hat or helmet.

   Synonyms: panache, plume

8. Any flimsy substance unspun, such as raw silk.

Usage notes

In everyday speech, primarily used in phrase to raise someone's hackles (“to make one angry”), as in “It raises my hackles when you take that condescending tone.”.

Translations

Verb

hackle (third-person singular simple present hackles, present participle hackling, simple past and past participle hackled)

1. To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning. [from 17th c.]
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 155:

     Then, with a smile that seemed to have all the freshness of the matutinal hour in it, she bent again to her work of hackling flax.

2. (transitive) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
3. (archaic, transitive) To tear asunder; to break into pieces.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     the other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces

Translations

Further reading

• hackle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hackle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hackel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æk?l/
• Rhymes: -æk?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English schakkyl, schakle, from Old English s?eacel, s?eacul, s?acul (“shackle, bond, fetter”), from Proto-Germanic *skakulaz (“shackle”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeg-, *skek- (“to jump, move, shake, stir”), equivalent to shake +? -le. Cognate with Dutch schakel (“link, shackle, clasp”), German Schäckel (“shackle”), Danish skagle (“a carriage trace”), Swedish skakel (“the loose shaft of a carriage”), Icelandic skökull (“a carriage pole”).

Noun

shackle (plural shackles)

1. (usually in the plural) A restraint fit over a human or animal appendage, such as a wrist, ankle or finger; normally used in pairs joined by a chain.

   Synonym: hobble

   Hyponyms: handcuff, manacle, fetter

2. A U-shaped piece of metal secured with a pin or bolt across the opening, or a hinged metal loop secured with a quick-release locking pin mechanism.

   Coordinate term: clevis

3. (figuratively, usually in the plural) A restraint on one's action, activity, or progress.

   • His very will seems to be in bonds and shackles.
4. A fetter-like band worn as an ornament.
   • 1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World

     Most of the men and women […] had all earrings made of gold, and gold shackles about their legs and arms.

5. A link for connecting railroad cars; a drawlink or draglink.
6. A length of cable or chain equal to 12+¹?₂ fathoms or 75 feet, or later to 15 fathoms.
7. Stubble.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Pegge to this entry?)

Derived terms

• harp shackle
• H-shackle
• shackleless

Translations

Further reading

• shackle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English schakelen, schakkylen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

shackle (third-person singular simple present shackles, present participle shackling, simple past and past participle shackled)

1. (transitive) To restrain using shackles; to place in shackles.
2. (transitive, by extension) To render immobile or incapable; to inhibit the progress or abilities of.

Antonyms

• (to restrain using shackles): unshackle, untie
• (to inhibit the abilities of): free, liberate, unshackle

Translations

Etymology 3

From shack (“shake”) +? -le.

Verb

shackle (third-person singular simple present shackles, present participle shackling, simple past and past participle shackled)

1. (dialectal) To shake, rattle.

Anagrams

• hackles

Scots

Etymology

From Old English sceacel, sceacul, scacul (“shackle, bond, fetter”), from Proto-Germanic *skakulaz (“shackle”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeg-, *skek- (“to jump, move, shake, stir”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?akl], [?ekl]

Noun

shackle (plural shackles)

1. shackle, fetter, manacle
2. (anatomy) wrist

Derived terms

• shackle-bane (“wrist”)

Verb

shackle (third-person singular present shackles, present participle shacklin, past shackelt, past participle shackelt)

1. to shackle