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6 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants
verb comb with a heckle
originFrom Middle English hakle (compare the compound meshakele), from Old English hæcla, hacele, from Proto-Germanic *hakulǭ, equivalent to hack + -le. Cognate with Dutch hekel, German Hechel.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0