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Hawkshaw

name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD7515).
  3. 3
    A suburb of Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6823).
  4. 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. 5
    A community in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.
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  1. 6
    A government town near Moockra, South Australia.
Noun
  1. 1
    A detective. dated, obsolete
  2. 2
    someone who is a detective wordnet

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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