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Hawk

noun

Diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail.

An advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations. Synonym: war hawk.

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)

Sell or offer for sale from place to place. Synonyms: huckster, monger, peddle, pitch, vend.

Hunt with hawks.

Clear mucus or food from one's throat. Synonym: clear the throat.

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"Hawk" Quotes from Famous Books

... was marked by: (a) two devastating world wars; (b) the Great Depression of the 1930s; (c) the end of vast colonial empires; (d) rapid advances in science and technology, from the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (US) to the landing on the moon; (e) the Cold War between the Western alliance and the Warsaw Pact nations; (f) a sharp rise in living standards in North America, Europe, and Japan; ...

— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... a parrot, it is a white cockatoo, that the chief of (something unutterable) brought down on his wrist like a hawk to the mission-ship; and that mamma sent as ...

— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge

... position—and everything—and they round on me like—like cuckoos." His pale, bulging eyes lifted their passionless veil for an instant as he spoke, and flashed with the predatory fierceness of a hawk. ...

— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic

... "Listen, Hawk-eye," said the Indian, addressing his companion, "and I will tell you what my fathers have said, and what the Mohicans have done. We came and made this land ours, and drove the Maquas who followed us, into the woods with the bears. Then came the Dutch, and gave my people the ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books - Vol. II: Fiction • Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.

... for theer rings, they was (were) so high that they was (were) dreadful; an' theer rings were full of eyes round about.' Huntin' damned sawls, my son—a braave sight for godly folks. That's why the rings of 'em be so full of eyes! They need be. An' theer wings whistle like a hawk arter a pigeon. 'Because o' the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk ...

— Lying Prophets • Eden Phillpotts

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