| 单词 | saddle hackle |
| 释义 | > as lemmassaddle hackle a. Each of the long feathers found on the necks of certain birds, as the domestic cock, peacock, pigeon, pheasant, etc., and capable of being erected in display (also neck hackle); such feathers collectively; the part of the neck on which they grow. Also: each of the similar feathers from the saddle or lower back (more fully saddle hackle). Quot. 1653 was printed in a mangled and distorted form by Johnson (1755), who founded on it a mistaken explanation: ‘Raw silk, any filmy substance unspun’. Although corrected in Todd's edition of Johnson's Dict. (1818), this spurious sense of hackle (sometimes with ‘flimsy’ substituted for ‘filmy’) continues to be reproduced in dictionaries. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > parts of > feather hackle1496 heckle?a1500 sickle-feather1688 saddle feather1854 saddle hackle1854 sickle1882 1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. i.iiiv The yelow flye. the body of yelow wull: the wynges of the redde cocke hakyll. a1589 L. Mascall Bk. Fishing (1590) 17 The yellow Fly..is good, the body made of yellow wooll, and the winges made of the redde cockes hackell or taile. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler iv. 110 Take the hackel of a Cock or Capons neck..take of the one side of the feather, and then take the hackel, Silk or Crewel, Gold or Silver thred, make these fast at the bent of the hook [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1735 J. Moore Columbarium 39 This Pigeon affords a very great Variety of Colours in its Plumage... Amongst all, there is a Mixture of three Colours, vulgarly call'd an Almond, perhaps from the Quantity of Almond colour'd Feathers that are found in the Hackle. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 110 The Red-fly comes on about the middle of February..it's wings are made artificially of a dark drake's feather, the body of the red part of squirrel's fur, with the red hackle of a cock. 1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 22 The hackles of the lower part of the back. 1867 W. B. Tegetmeier Pigeons xi. 117 The hackle, or neck-feathers, should be bright. 1970 H. E. Smith Bantams i. 9 Feathers towards the stern are correctly called ‘saddle hackles’. 1970 H. E. Smith Bantams iii. 19 The colours of a Red Jungle Fowl..male are neck hackle, golden; saddle hackle, orange. 1980 R. Haig-Brown New Blood in V. Haig-Brown Woods & River Tales xv. 151 A Rhode Island hen had an early brood of a dozen or more chicks by the black stump behind the barn. She raised her hackles as he passed and warned him, with a little angry skirring sound, to keep his distance. saddle hackle saddle hackle n. any of the long feathers growing backwards from the saddle of a domestic fowl, esp. a cock (more fully saddle hackle feather); these feathers collectively. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > parts of > feather hackle1496 heckle?a1500 sickle-feather1688 saddle feather1854 saddle hackle1854 sickle1882 1854 L. A. Meall Moubray's Treat. Poultry 85 The saddle hackle and back feathers. 1923 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 95 261 The feathers of the neck, saddle-hackle, and tail, as they were renewed, were seen to be cocky in structure. 1951 W. H. Silk Bantams & Miniature Fowl iv. 26 Neck and saddle hackle are silvery-white as free from black striping as possible... Saddles and wing-bows are rich yellow or orange, shading to silvery-white in saddle-hackle. 1996 Fly Tyer Autumn 14 Cut or strip a clump of fluff from the base of a pheasant-body feather or a saddle hackle. < as lemmas |
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