Kackle

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

Alternative form of keckle..

Definitions by Sense

1. Alternative form of keckle.
2. (ornithology) A low raspy noise accompanied by head jerks, used to signal appeasement in some species.
3. Alternative form of cackle.
4. (ornithology) To make a kackle while jerking the head, signalling appeasement.

Example Sentences

The following table also shows the size and length of the hitching for the eye, the size and length of the seizing, the length of rounding for kackling, and the length to kackle each cable.

The tip of the shaft has a whipping of sinew-braid 1¾ inches deep, “kackled” down on both edges, one end of the twine on each edge, so that the hitch made by one end crosses the round turn of the other, making in all twenty-six turns.

With mated birds, however, the preening bird was not aggressive and approached the partner with appeasement displays such as Head Jerks, Kackles and ambivalent movements.

Females never revealed their sex during greetings; no females solicited copulations or produced calls other than 'kackles'.

Black-throated Finches give 'kackles' in the same situations as do Long-tailed Finches, and they appear to have the same appeasement function.

As soon as she got outside I heard her kackle, kackle, on to the pantry, where she said to the charwoman, “I never saw or read about or heard tell of such a man.”

While we were all kneeling in prayer these hens set up a kackle, kackle, kackle and made such a noise that it drowned the Voice of the brother in prayer.

A bird 'kackling' while alighting may be ignored or greeted in return with weak 'kackles' and headjerks.

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• kackles
• kackling
• kackled

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