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Hawk   /hɔk/   Listen
Hawk

noun
1.
Diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail.
2.
An advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations.  Synonym: war hawk.
3.
A square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar.  Synonym: mortarboard.
verb
(past & past part. hawked; pres. part. hawking)
1.
Sell or offer for sale from place to place.  Synonyms: huckster, monger, peddle, pitch, vend.
2.
Hunt with hawks.
3.
Clear mucus or food from one's throat.  Synonym: clear the throat.



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"Hawk" Quotes from Famous Books



... Duty) and be d—d to ye for an unreasonable bitch! "The devil must be in this greedy gled!" as the Earl of Angus said to his hawk; "will she never be satisfied?"[312] I believe in my soul she is the very hag who haunted ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
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... through this dwarf-oak scrub, but they struggled on, descending now into a steep ravine quite in the uninhabited part of the island, and feeling that they might talk and shout as they pleased—for they were not likely to be heard. But they were very quiet, and when hawk or magpie was started, or an old nest seen, they instinctively called each other's attention to it in ...
— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn
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... vulture or eagle or condor could be as big as that at this distance. At least I think so." He paused here, as one studying the problem in the scientific spirit. "Often in the Rockies I've confused a nearby chicken-hawk, at first, with a far eagle. But the human eye has its own system of triangulation. Those are not little birds nearby, but big birds far off. See how heavily they soar. Do you realize what's happened? We've ...
— Angel Island • Inez Haynes Gillmore
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... his heart with a smile, but revenge never sleeps in his bosom; His tongue—it is soft to beguile; but beware of the pur of the panther! For death, like a shadow, will walk by thy side in the midst of the forest, Or follow thy path like a hawk on the trail of a wounded Mastinca. [a] A son of Unkthee is he, —the Chief of the crafty magicians; They have plotted thy death; I foresee, and thy trail, it is red in the forest; Beware of Tamdka,—beware. Slumber not like the grouse of the woodlands, With head under wing, for the glare ...
— Legends of the Northwest • Hanford Lennox Gordon
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... of that fourth estate to whom the coming century will belong? The eternal struggle for possession of the people continued as bitterly as ever even in Rome itself, where pope and king, who could see each other from their windows, contended together like falcon and hawk for the little birds of the woods. And in this for Pierre lay the reason why Catholicism was fatally condemned; for it was of monarchical essence to such a point that the Apostolic and Roman papacy could not ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
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