hacklet
(ˈhæklɪt)
Also haglet.
[Origin uncertain.]
A small species of sea-gull; the kittiwake.
| 1855 Kingsley Westw. Ho! xxxii, From the Gull-rock rose a thousand birds..the choughs cackled, the hacklets wailed. 1856 Emerson Eng. Traits, Voy. to Eng. Wks (Bohn) II. 11 Gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive, and hover around. 1865 Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 74 The kittywake, or hacklet, a very small species of gull. |