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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



... looked up and saw a large bird not very far up, not farther than he could fling, or shoot his arrows, and the bird was fluttering his wings, but did not move away farther, as if he had been tied in the air. Guido knew it was a hawk, and the hawk was staying there to see if there was a mouse or a little bird in the wheat. After a minute the hawk stopped fluttering and lifted his wings together as a butterfly does when he shuts his, and down the hawk came, straight into the corn. "Go away!" shouted Guido jumping up, and ...
— Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools • Emilie Kip Baker

... stream, flowing by an iron channel farther south, may be traced by a long line of vapor amid the hills, which no morning wind ever disperses, to where it empties into the sea at Boston. This side is the louder murmur now. Instead of the scream of a fish-hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country ...
— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau

... hawk, the aeroplane, its propeller flashing in the sunlight, hung over Lost Island. For fully six seconds it remained there, not moving an inch. Suddenly it lurched, dropped half the distance to the trees, the yellow planes snapping like gun-shots. It ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island • Gordon Stuart

... Black Hawk war, and I was elected a captain of volunteers, a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since. I went the campaign, was elated, ran for the legislature the same year (1832), and was beaten—the only time I have ever been beaten by the 25 people. ...
— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell

... of Tarrinzeau Field were aghast at Gwynplaine. The effect he caused was as that of a sparrow-hawk flapping his wings in a cage of goldfinches, and feeding in their seed-trough. Gwynplaine ate ...
— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo


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