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hackle (2)
hack·le [ hák'l ] (past and past participle hack·led, present participle hack·ling, 3rd person present singular hack·les)


transitive and intransitive verb 
Definition:
 
cut roughly: to mangle something by cutting it roughly
[Late 16th century. <hack1]
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