All hackling synonyms

verb hackling

• chop — If you chop something, you cut it into pieces with strong downward movements of a knife or an axe.
• crack — If something hard cracks, or if you crack it, it becomes slightly damaged, with lines appearing on its surface.
• hack — to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
• nick — Old Nick.
• splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
• whack — to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.
• break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
• chisel — A chisel is a tool that has a long metal blade with a sharp edge at the end. It is used for cutting and shaping wood and stone.
• clip — A clip is a small device, usually made of metal or plastic, that is specially shaped for holding things together.
• crumble — If something crumbles, or if you crumble it, it breaks into a lot of small pieces.
• damage — To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
• flake — fake2 (defs 2, 3).
• fragment — fragmentation
• gash — a long, deep wound or cut; slash.
• hackle — one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers.
• hew — to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
• incise — to cut into; cut marks, figures, etc., upon.
• notch — an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.
• shape — Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe.
• shear — to cut (something).
• slash — to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
• slice — a thin, flat piece cut from something: a slice of bread.
• sliver — a small, slender, often sharp piece, as of wood or glass, split, broken, or cut off, usually lengthwise or with the grain; splinter.
• snick — to cut, snip, or nick.
• snip — to cut with a small, quick stroke, or a succession of such strokes, with scissors or the like.
• split — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
• whittle — to cut, trim, or shape (a stick, piece of wood, etc.) by carving off bits with a knife.
• crack off — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
• cut off — If you cut something off, you remove it with a knife or a similar tool.
• cleave — To cleave something means to split or divide it into two separate parts, often violently.
• cube — A cube is a solid object with six square surfaces which are all the same size.
• divide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
• mince — to cut or chop into very small pieces.
• axe — An axe is a tool used for cutting wood. It consists of a heavy metal blade which is sharp at one edge and attached by its other edge to the end of a long handle.
• dice — A dice is a small cube which has between one and six spots or numbers on its sides, and which is used in games to provide random numbers. In old-fashioned English, 'dice' was used only as a plural form, and the singular was die, but now 'dice' is used as both the singular and the plural form.
• fell — simple past tense of fall.
• hash — hashish.
• lop — to let hang or droop: He lopped his arms at his sides in utter exhaustion.
• mangle — to smooth or press with a mangle.
• sever — to separate (a part) from the whole, as by cutting or the like.
• truncate — to shorten by cutting off a part; cut short: Truncate detailed explanations.
• uncluttered — to fill or litter with things in a disorderly manner: All kinds of papers cluttered the top of his desk.
• bathe — If you bathe in a sea, river, or lake, you swim, play, or wash yourself in it. Birds and animals can also bathe.
• brush — A brush is an object which has a large number of bristles or hairs fixed to it. You use brushes for painting, for cleaning things, and for tidying your hair.
• cleanse — To cleanse a place, person, or organization of something dirty, unpleasant, or evil means to make them free from it.
• clear up — When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.
• disinfect — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
• dredge — Also called dredging machine. any of various powerful machines for dredging up or removing earth, as from the bottom of a river, by means of a scoop, a series of buckets, a suction pipe, or the like.
• dust — earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
• flush — a hand or set of cards all of one suit. Compare royal flush, straight flush.