hacking 
of a steel blade against them while in motion, 
for the purpose of providing receptacles or 
pockets for the powders used in cutting and 
polishing gems. 
hacking^ (hak'ing), p. a. [Ppr. of hack 1 , v. i., 5.] 
Short and interrupted: as, a hacking cough. 
Also hacky. 
He took himself to be no mean doctor, who, being guilty 
of no Greek, and being demanded why it was called an 
hective fever ; because, saith he, of an kecking cough 
which ever attendeth this disease. 
Fuller, Holy State, i. 2. 
hacking 2 (hak'ing), n. [Verbal n. of hactf, r.] 
In brick-making, piling bricks for drying. 
The necessary handlings required in stacking, or, as it 
is technically called, hacking, damage the bricks by chip- 
ping off the corners and bending the same. 
C. T. Davis, Bricks and Tiles, p. 128. 
hacking-seat (hak'ing-set), . 
a seat proper for hack-riding, as opposed to 
cross-country or hard riding. Encyc. Brit., XII. 
197. 
hack-iron (hak'i"eru), n. 1. A miners' pick; 
a hack. E. H. Knight. 2. A chisel used in 
cutting nails. It has a check or stop to regu- 
late the length of the nail. 
hackle 1 (hak'l), v. t.; pret. and pp. hackled, 
ppr. hackling. [Also in var. form haggle 1 , q. v. ; 
= D. hakkelen, hack, mangle, stammer; freq. 
of hack 1 , v.] To hack roughly; haggle. See 
liitf/gle 1 . 
hackle 2 (hak'l), . [< ME. liakel (found only 
in comp. meshakele, < AS. maxsehacele = Dan. 
messehagel = 8w. messhnke, a priest's cope, and 
mysthakel, a cloak or covering of mist), < AS. 
hacele, hascla = OFries. hejcil (for "hekil) = OHG. 
hachiil, MHGr. hachel = Icel. hokull, a priest's 
cope; cf. hekla, a cowled or hooded frock, = 
Goth, hakuls, a cloak.] A conical covering of 
straw or hay, such as is used to thatch a bee- 
hive. [Prov. Eng.] 
hackle 3 (hak'l), . [Also assibilated hatchel; 
laterforms (simulating Aocfcl, hatch^1)otheckle, 
assibilated (obs.) hetchel: see heckle.] 1. A 
comb for dressing flax: same as heckle, 1. 2. 
Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk. 3. 
One of the long slender feathers from the neck 
or saddle of the domestic cock, much used by 
anglers for making artificial flies. They are dis- 
tinguished as neck-hackles and saddle-hackle*, according 
to their situation ; the former are stouter and stronger 
than the latter. Many different colors are found, as black, 
white, gray, red, dun, ginger (light yellowish-redX ginger- 
barred, furnace (red and black), etc. Hackles for flies are 
also dyed of any desired color. By extension the term is 
applied to the similar feathers of other birds, especially 
when used for the same purpose. Sometimes callednAmer. 
The red hackle of a capon, over all, will kill, and, if the 
weather be right, make very good sport. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, ii. 7. 
4. An artificial fly made without wings to rep- 
resent a caterpillar or other larva, or the larva- 
like body of a winged fly ; a palmer. 5. In her. , 
same as bray 6 , 2 (b). 
hackle 3 (hak'l), v. t.; pret. and pp. hackled, 
ppr. hackling. [Also assibilated hatchel; later 
forms of heckle: see heckle, v. and n.] 1. To 
comb, as flax or hemp: same as heckle. 2. To 
tear asunder. 
It was so hackled that it seemed to be much blemished. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 86. 
The other divisions of the kingdom, being hackled and 
torn to pieces, . . . cannot, for some time at least, confed- 
erate against her. Burke, Rev. in France. 
hackle-bar (hak'1-bar), n. One of the spikes 
in a hackle which comb out the fibers of flax. 
hackled (hak'ld;, a. [< hackle* + -erf 2 .] Hav- 
ing hackles: specifically applied to the Nico- 
bar pigeon, Calcenas nicobarica. 
hackle-feather (hak^-feTu^er), n. A hackle. 
hackle-fly (hak'1-fli), n. An artificial fly made 
with hackles, like a palmer, but also provided 
with wings, and sometimes with a tail. See 
hackle 3 , n., 4. 
hackler (hak'ler), n. [< hackle^ + -er 1 ; same 
as hatcheler and heckler.] One who hackles ; a 
flax-dresser ; a heckler or hatcheler. 
hacklet, haglet (hak'-, hag'let), . [Appar. 
connected with hag 1 , 5, or hagden, q. v., the 
greater shearwater; local names of obscure ori- 
gin.] A kind of sea-bird, probably the shear- 
water. See hagden. 
Below them from the Gull-rock rose a thousand birds, 
and nlled the air with sound ; the choughs cackled, the 
hacklcts wailed, the great blackbacks laughed querulous 
defiance at the intruders. Kingaley, Westward Ho, xxxii. 
hackling (hak'liug), n. [Verbal n. of hackleS, v.] 
I . In flax-manuf. , the process of removing from 
the flax everything which would be detrimental 
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in spinning, and of making the fibers smooth, 
parallel, and of equal length. The combs used arc 
of zinc or steel, and are of varying degrees of fineness, the 
process beginning with a coarse comb and ending with a 
fine one. Also called combing. 
2. Hackles collectively, as material for making 
artificial flies. 
hackling-machine (hak'ling-ma-shen*), . A 
machine consisting of a pair of horizontal 
rollers set with brushes and hackles, and used 
in hackling and cleaning raw flax. 
backlog (hak'log), n. [< hack 1 + log.] A 
chopping-block. [Rare.] 
A kind of editorial hacking on which ... to chop straw. 
Carlyle, Sterling, i. 3. 
hackly (hak'li),. [<. hackle 1 + -1/ 1 .] 1. Rough; 
broken as if hacked ; mangled by chopping or 
cutting. 2. In mineral., having fine, short, and 
sharp points on the surface : as, a hackly frac- 
ture. 
hackman (hak'maii), . ; pi. hackmen (-men). 
The driver or keeper of a hack or public car- 
riage. [U. S.] 
In the hotel a placard warned them to have nothing to 
do with the miscreant hackmen on the streets, but always 
to order their carriages at the office. 
Uawells, Their Wedding Journey, vt. 
hackmatack (hak'ma-tak), n. | Aincr. Ind.] 
The American larch, Larix Americana : called 
tamarack in the northwestern lumber-regions. 
See larch. Sometimes hackmetack. 
hackney (hak'ni), M. and a. [Now often abbr. 
hack (see hack*); < ME. hakeney, hakkeney, 
haknay, hakenay, < AF. hakenai, hakeney, OF. 
haquenee, hacqucnee, hacquenet,a,nd hacquenart, 
F. haquenee (nearly obs.) = Sp. Pg. hacanea, 
Pg. also acanea, OSp. OPg. facanea = It. ac- 
chinea, now abbr. chinea (ML. hakeneius, hake- 
netiia), cf. MD. hackeneye, D. hakkenei, an am- 
bling horse. Cf . OF. haque (also dim. haqutt) = 
Sp. Itaca, OSp. OPg. faca, a nag, possibly abbr. 
from the preceding longer forms (cf. E. hack*, 
abbr from hackney); but the origin and connec- 
tions of the words are obscure. The Rom. forms 
suggest a Teut. origin, and may come (through 
OF.) from MD. The MD. hackeneye is ex- 
plained by Gesner (in Kilian) from MD. hacken, 
hakken, cliop, the alternate lifting and drop- 
ping of the horse's feet in ambling, with the 
accompanying sound, being compared to the 
alternating movement of a pair of chopping- 
knives in chopping cabbage or the like. Skeat, 
overlooking this explanation, suggests the same 
hakken in a possible sense 'jolt.' The term. 
-neye is not clear.] I. n. 1. A horse kept for 
riding or driving ; a pad ; a nag. 
Furth he rideth vppon his hakeney, 
Vppou the Eeuerys side to hir logging. 
Oenerydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1249. 
The knyghtis and squiei-s are well horsed, and the com- 
mon people and other, on litell hakeneyi and geldyngis. 
Bernars, tr. of Froissart'8 Chron., I. xviii. 
He announced . . . the day he should arrive at Still- 
bro', desiring his hackney to be sent to the "George " for 
his accommodation. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, xxx. 
2. A horse kept for hire; a horse much used; 
a hack. 
Ac hakeneyes hadde the! none Dote hakeneyes to hyre ; 
Thenne gan Gyle borwe hors at meny grete maistres. 
Piers Plowman (C), iii. 175. 
3. A coach or other carriage kept for hire. 
Also called hackney-coach. 
I would more respect a General without attendance in 
a hackney, that has oblig'd a nation with a peace, than 
him who rides at the head of an army in triumph, and 
plunges it into an expensive war. 
Oentleman Instructed, p. 195. 
4f. A person accustomed to drudgery; a person 
ready to be hired for any drudgery or dirty 
work ; a hireling. 
Public hackneys in the schooling trade ; 
Who feed a pupil's intellect with store 
Of syntax, truly, but with little more. 
Cowper, Tirocinium, 1. 621. 
5f. A prostitute. 
She was so notoriously lewd that she was called an 
hackney. Bp. Burnet, Hist. Reformation, I., App. 
6. A payment in hire or as in hire. [Rare.] 
The kingdom of Naples, at an early period of its history, 
became feudatory to the See of Rome, and, in acknowledg- 
ment thereof, has annually paid a hackney In the Pope in 
Rome. Je/ersim, Correspondence, II. 347. 
II. a. Let out, employed, or done for hire; 
drudging; mercenary. 
So the next daye, Tewysday, that was Candelmasse daye, 
after masses erly done, we toke our sayd hakney horses 
and rode to Vyncencia. 
Sir R. Ouylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 78. 
Slightly train'd up in a kind of hypocritical and hackny 
cours of literature to get their living by. 
Milton, Church-Government, ii., Con. 
haddie 
You are a generous author ; I a hackney scribbler. 
Pope, To Dr. 1'ainell. 
Here comes Bob, 
And I must serve some hackney job. 
Lloyd, Hanbury's Horse to Rev. Mr. Scot. 
He endeavored to get employment as a hackney writer, 
to copy for the stationers and lawyers about the Temple. 
Franklin, Autobiog., p. 73. 
hackney (hak'ni), v. t. [< hackney, n.] 1. To 
wear, weary, or exhaust by frequent or exces- 
sive use, as a horse; hence, to render worn, 
trite, stale, etc., as by repetition. 
Had I so lavish of my presence been, 
So common-hackney'd in the eyes of men, . . . 
Opinion, that did help me to the crown, 
Had still kept loyal to possession. 
,Shak., IHen. IV., iii. 2. 
Both men and horses and leather being hackneyed, jad- 
ed, and worn out upon the errand of some contentious and 
obstinate bishop. Marvell, Works, III. 127. 
His [Mr. James Quin's] jokes may be called the standing 
jests of the town ; but those who have hackneyed some of 
them, and murdered others, have scarce ever entered into 
the most cursory part of his life and character. 
Life of Quin (reprint 1887), p. 7. 
2. To ride or drive as a hackney. [Rare.] 
Galen's adoptive sons, who by a beaten way 
Their judgments hackney on, the fault on sickness lay. 
Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, L 564). 
hackney-coach (hak'ni-koch), n. Same as hack- 
ney, 3. 
tTp before day, and Cocke and I took a hackney-coach 
appointed with four horses to take us up, and so carried 
us over London bridge. Pepys, Diary, II. 329. 
hackney-coachman (hak'ni-koch'man), n. A 
man who drives a hackney-coach. 
hackneyed (hak'uid), p. a. Trite ; common- 
place ; threadbare : as, a hackneyed subject. 
In the broad, beaten turnpike-road 
Of hackney'd panegyric ode, 
No modern poet dares to ride 
Without Apollo by his side. 
Churchill, The Ghost, ii. 
I always held that hackneyed maxim of Pope ... as 
very unworthy a man of genius. Goldsmith, Vicar, xv. 
hackneyman (hak'ni-man), n. ; pi. hackneymeii 
(-men). [< ME. hackneyman, hakeneyman.] A 
man who lets horses and carriages for hire. 
Hikke the hakeneyman and Hughe the nedeler, . . . 
Dawe the dykere and a dozeine other. 
Piert Ploumian (B), v. 320. 
hackstert (hak'ster), . [< hack* + -ster.] A 
bully; a ruffian. 
Happy tiroes, when Braves and Hackttters, the onely 
contented members of his Government, were thought the 
fittest and the faithfullest to defend his Person. 
Milton, Eikonoklastes, iii. 
hack-trap (hak'trap), n. A kind of weir for 
taking fish, formed of slender stakes driven in 
the bed of the river in the form of the letter T, 
adopted by the early settlers of America from 
the Indians, and still employed in southern 
rivers for the capture of shad. 
hack-watch (hak'woch), . Naut., a watch 
with a second-hand, used in taking observa- 
tions to obviate the necessity of constantly 
moving the chronometer. The watch is compared 
with the chronometer immediately before and after every 
observation. Also called job-watch. 
hacky (hak'i), a. [< hack*, 5, + -y 1 .] Same as 
hacking 1 . [Colloq.] 
Take time by the forelock ere that rasping hacky cough 
of yours carries you where so many consumptives have 
preceded you. Science, No. 296, p. iii. 
hacquebutet, n. See hackbut and harquebus. 
hacqueton, n. Another form of acton. 
had ' (had). Preterit and past participle of have, 
and as an auxiliary making pluperfect tense- 
phrases. 
had 2 (had), v. t. A variant of haud for hold 1 . 
[Scotch.] 
They flung him in, 
And put a turf on his breast bane, 
To had young Hunting down. 
Young Bunting (Child's Ballads, III. 297). 
hadbotet, [Only as a historical term in ref- 
erence to AS. law, repr. AS. hadbot, < had, 
order, degree, priestly dignity (see -hood), + 
bot, recompense, boot: see boot 1 , hotel.] i n 
Anglo-Saxon law, compensation made for vio- 
lence or an affront offered to a priest. 
haddenH. An obsolete preterit plural of have. 
hadden- (had'n). [Sc., var. hauden, hudden.] 
A dialectal form of holden, past participle of 
hold 1 . 
hadder (had'er), n. A dialectal form of heather. 
haddie (had'i), . [Sc., a dim. equiv. to 
haddock.] A haddock. See finnan-haddock. 
[Scotch.] 
Weel, Monkbarns, they're braw caller haddies. 
Scott, Antiquary, xxxix. 
