saddle hackle

1. 1.

   a long narrow feather on the back (saddle) of a domestic fowl

   Synonymssaddle feather

   Broaderhackle

Questions about saddle hackle

What does saddle hackle mean?

saddle hackle means "a long narrow feather on the back (saddle) of a domestic fowl".

What is another word for saddle hackle?

Close synonyms include saddle feather. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is saddle hackle a common word?

saddle hackle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.