hackle
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Searchable Lemmata: hacele (OE), hakele (ME), hackle (MdE).
Alternate Forms: hæcel, haecil, hacel, hacelan, hacle, hakle.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Garment;
a long overgarment. In Old English usage, equated variously with cloaks and mantles, also identified with specific vestments. The term is found in several compounds, especially with 'mass- ' as a vestment name. In Middle English usage, the word was used to refer generally to an covering (e.g. skin, fur or plumage), or in a garment sense 'finery, garb'; as a specific garment found in ME compounds (e.g. messehakele).(ante 900 - post 1450 ?)
1. Þa on ðære eahtoðan nihte hyre fulwihtes þa gegyrede heo hy mid hærenre tunecan ond mid byrnan þæt is mid lytelre hacelan, ond heo næs na leng ðær gesewen, ac heo gewat on Oliuetes dune ond hyre timbrede lytle cytan in ðære stowe þe Crist him gebæd þa he wæs mon on eorðan.
Biblical/Hagiographic.
[DOE Mart 5 (Kotzor) (1198 (Oc 19, A.26)) ante 900]
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Entire Body.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, Old English hacele is equivalent to 'Old High German hachul, Middle High German hachel, Icelandic hökull "priest's cope", Gothic hakuls "cloak", strong masculine, also to Old Norse hekla strong feminine "cowled, or hooded frock" ' [OED, 2nd ed. (1989), s.v. 'hackle, n.1']. The 'plumage' sense, which by the 19th c. had gone on to produce the phrase 'raise one's hackles' is, contra OED, perhaps derived from heckle (q.v.). The use of the word to refer to garments is not clearly attested after the medieval period, except in historical or scholastic texts.
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