On top of the rick one of the tarpaulin sheets had broken loose; the cruel wind was tearing beneath it, wrenching out pegs and cordage, snatching at thatch-hackle, and making the stout ropes that should have held the sheet hiss and dart like serpents.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
Now an army was drawn up in contiguous columns on my cheeks, the skirmishers advancing through my eye-brows; at their first volley I felt as if I was struck with a hackle.
"Canadian Eclipse Party 1869"
Commander E. D. Ashe
"I think you will find a very small gray hackle will be good.
"The Young Alaskans on the Missouri"
Emerson Hough