| 词汇 | hackle |
| 词源 | hackle. A hackle was originally an instrument used to work flax. Then the word was applied to the raised feathers of angry cock-fighting fowls, which looked like they had been rumpled with a hackle, this usage dating back to at least 1450. Some two centuries later (no one is sure exactly when), the first artificial fishing lures used two bright hackles from a gamecock as the legs of the artificial flies to be tied to the hook. Soon after hackle became the name of the artificial lure itself. |
| 随便看 |
英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。