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Eagle

noun

Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight. Synonym: bird of Jove.

(golf) a score of two strokes under par on a hole.

A former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollars.

An emblem representing power.

verb

Shoot two strokes under par. Synonym: double birdie.

Shoot in two strokes under par.

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"Eagle" Quotes from Famous Books

... US coat of arms in the center between the large blue initials V and I; the coat of arms shows an eagle holding an olive branch in one talon and three arrows in the other with a superimposed shield of vertical red and white stripes below a ...

— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... the whole future depending upon an incomprehensible something which might perchance fail me! Do you understand now the anguish gnawing me? Ah, the swan is certain, by bending his neck, to find under water the grasses he delights in; the eagle, when he swoops from the blue, sure of falling upon his prey; and you are ever sure of finding in the earth the well supplied nests of the ants,—but I, for whom my own work remains a mystery, I, possessed ever ...

— Chantecler - Play in Four Acts • Edmond Rostand

... House was crowded. It seemed that all the guests at Lady Marchpane's a week before were in the Distinguished Strangers' Gallery or behind the Ladies' Grille. From the Press Gallery "Our Special Word-painter" looked down upon the statesmen beneath him, his eagle eye ready to detect on the moment the Angry Flush, the Wince, or the Sudden Paling of enemy, the Grim Smile or the Lofty ...

— Once a Week • Alan Alexander Milne

... am, my noble Gorgio! He could patter the calo jib with the best of 'um. He know'd lots wot the Gentiles don' know, an' he had the eagle beak an' the peaked eye. Oh, tiny Jesus was a Romany chal, or may ...

— The Bishop's Secret • Fergus Hume

... handful of change from his pocket and selected a gold eagle. "I suppose I must cross your palm with gold," he said, even while his subconscious mind was running on the new complication presented ...

— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine

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