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Hawk
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
"It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world."
- 2 A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.
- 3 A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat.
- 4 diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail wordnet
- 5 Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.
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- 6 a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar wordnet
- 7 Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.
- 8 an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations wordnet
- 9 An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.
"A hawk by nature, Ellenborough strongly favoured presenting St Petersburg with an ultimatum warning that any further incursions into Persia would be regarded as a hostile act."
- 10 An uncooperative or purely selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the prisoner's dilemma, a.k.a. the Hawk-Dove game.
- 11 Cold, sharp or biting wind. US, often, with-definite-article
"[…] take-out sandwich from Arnie's on Jackson, then a brisk walk to Michigan Avenue in the face of the "Hawk," blowing newspapers and skirts and the gulls wheeling over the Michigan Avenue Bridge in front of […]"
- 1 To hunt with a hawk. transitive
"To hawke, or els to hunt From the auter to the funt"
- 2 To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle. transitive
"The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square."
- 3 To expectorate, to cough up (something, such as mucus) from one's throat; to produce (something) by coughing or clearing one's throat. intransitive, transitive
"to hawk a loogie"
- 4 clear mucus or food from one's throat wordnet
- 5 To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk. intransitive
"to hawk at flies"
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- 6 To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly; to cough heavily, especially causing uvular frication. intransitive, transitive
"Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco."
- 7 hunt with hawks wordnet
- 8 sell or offer for sale from place to place wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English hauk, hauke, hawke, havek, from Old English hafoc (“hawk”), from Proto-West Germanic *habuk, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, controversially derived from Proto-Indo-European *kopuǵos, perhaps ultimately derived from *kap- (“seize”). See also West Frisian hauk, German Low German Haavke, Dutch havik, German Habicht, Swedish hök, Danish høg, Norwegian Bokmål hauk, Norwegian Nynorsk hauk, Faroese heykur, Icelandic haukur, Finnish haukka, Estonian haugas; also Latin capys, capus (“bird of prey”), Albanian gabonjë, shkabë (“eagle”), Russian ко́бец (kóbec, “falcon”), Polish kobuz (“Eurasian Hobby”)).
From Middle English hauk, hauke, hawke, havek, from Old English hafoc (“hawk”), from Proto-West Germanic *habuk, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, controversially derived from Proto-Indo-European *kopuǵos, perhaps ultimately derived from *kap- (“seize”). See also West Frisian hauk, German Low German Haavke, Dutch havik, German Habicht, Swedish hök, Danish høg, Norwegian Bokmål hauk, Norwegian Nynorsk hauk, Faroese heykur, Icelandic haukur, Finnish haukka, Estonian haugas; also Latin capys, capus (“bird of prey”), Albanian gabonjë, shkabë (“eagle”), Russian ко́бец (kóbec, “falcon”), Polish kobuz (“Eurasian Hobby”)).
Uncertain; perhaps from Middle English hache (“battle-axe”), or from a variant use of the above, for this compare with Russian со́кол (sókol, “falcon, but also a hawk (plaster's tool), mortarboard”).
Back-formation from hawker.
Probably imitative, like hock (“cough”), hack (“cough”), although see the latter entry for more.
Probably imitative, like hock (“cough”), hack (“cough”), although see the latter entry for more.
* As an English surname, occupational surname for a hawker. This may have been inherited from Middle English hauek (“hawk”), from Old English hafoc. * Also as an English surname, from Middle English halke (“isolated nook”), from Old English healh (“nook”) + diminutive suffix -oc.
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