Hawkshaw
name, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A detective. dated, obsolete
- 2 someone who is a detective wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
"Not only has front woman Kirsty Hawkshaw replaced her space-age baldness with a glamorous new look, but the music that fills the act's EastWest album is far more complex and substantial […]"
- 2 A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD7515).
- 3 A suburb of Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6823).
- 4 A tiny settlement on the Tweed, south-west of Tweedsmuir, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, at the mouth of Hawkshaw Burn (OS grid ref NT0722)
- 5 A community in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- 6 A government town near Moockra, South Australia.
Example
More examples"Not only has front woman Kirsty Hawkshaw replaced her space-age baldness with a glamorous new look, but the music that fills the act's EastWest album is far more complex and substantial […]"
Etymology
From Hawkshaw the Detective, a character in Tom Taylor's 1863 play The Ticket of Leave Man. The name was later borrowed in the early 20th century for a character in an American comic strip.
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