Hawk

Noun

 * 1) A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae.
 * It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.
 * 1)  An advocate of aggressive political positions.
 * The hawks controlled the senate, so the Minister of War had few problems with his budget.

Antonyms

 * dove

Derived terms

 * African harrier hawk
 * aspere-hawk
 * ball hawk
 * bay-winged hawk
 * bee hawk
 * between hawk and buzzard
 * bicoloured hawk
 * black hawk
 * broad-winged hawk
 * chicken hawk, chicken-hawk, chickenhawk
 * common black hawk
 * Cooper's hawk
 * deficit hawk
 * dor-hawk, dorhawk, dorrhawk
 * dove hawk
 * duck hawk, duck-hawk
 * eagle hawk, eagle-hawk, eaglehawk
 * ferruginous hawk
 * fish hawk, fish-hawk, fishhawk
 * Galápagos hawk
 * game hawk
 * gnat hawk, gnat-hawk


 * gray hawk, grey hawk
 * gray-lined hawk, grey-lined hawk
 * great black hawk
 * great-footed hawk
 * Gundlach's hawk
 * Harlan's hawk
 * harrier hawk
 * Harris hawk, Harris's hawk
 * have eyes like a hawk
 * Hawaiian hawk
 * hawk-beaked
 * hawk-bell
 * hawkbill


 * hawk-cuckoo


 * hawk-dove game
 * hawk eagle
 * hawked
 * hawker
 * hawkery
 * hawk-eye
 * hawk-eyed
 * hawkfish
 * hawk fly, hawk-fly
 * hawk-headed parrot
 * hawkish
 * hawk-kite
 * hawk-like, hawklike
 * hawk moth, hawk-moth, hawkmoth
 * hawk nose, hawk-nose, hawknose
 * hawk-nosed
 * hawk-nut, hawknut
 * hawk of the fist
 * hawk of the lure
 * hawk of the soar
 * hawk owl, hawk-owl
 * hawk-parrot
 * hawk's beard, hawk's-beard, hawksbeard
 * hawk's bell
 * hawk's bill, hawk's-bill, hawksbill
 * hawk's-bill turtle, hawksbill turtle
 * hawk's eye, hawk's-eye
 * hawk's-feet, hawk's-foot
 * hawk's meat
 * hawk swallow, hawk-swallow
 * hawkweed
 * hawkwise
 * hawky
 * hen hawk, hen-hawk
 * hobby hawk
 * hover-hawk


 * jack-hawk
 * jashawk
 * Jayhawk
 * kitchen hawk
 * know a hawk from a handsaw
 * Krider's hawk
 * lark-hawk
 * liberal hawk
 * long-tailed hawk
 * Lucifer hawk
 * make-hawk
 * man-of-war hawk
 * mangrove black hawk
 * mar-hawk
 * market-hawk
 * marsh hawk
 * meadowhawk
 * moor hawk
 * mosquito hawk
 * moth-hawk
 * mountain hawk
 * mouse hawk, mouse-hawk
 * news-hawk, newshawk
 * night hawk, night-hawk
 * pap-hawk
 * partridge-hawk
 * passage hawk
 * peregrine hawk
 * pigeon hawk, pigeon-hawk
 * plain-breasted hawk
 * pondhawk
 * prairie hawk
 * quail hawk
 * red-shouldered hawk
 * red-tailed hawk


 * Ridgway's hawk
 * ringtail hawk
 * rough-legged hawk
 * rufous-thighed hawk
 * savanna hawk
 * screech hawk, screech-hawk
 * sea hawk, sea-hawk
 * semicollared hawk
 * sharp-shinned hawk
 * shite-hawk
 * short-tailed hawk
 * shower hawk
 * skeeter hawk
 * small-bird-hawk
 * snake hawk
 * snipe hawk
 * spar-hawk, sparhawk
 * sparrow hawk, sparrow-hawk, sparrowhawk
 * squirrel hawk
 * stand hawk
 * stannel hawk
 * star-hawk
 * stone hawk
 * Swainson's hawk
 * swallow-tailed hawk
 * tarantula hawk
 * tiny hawk
 * vanner hawk
 * war hawk, war-hawk
 * watch (someone or something) like a hawk
 * whistling hawk
 * white-breasted hawk
 * white-throated hawk
 * white hawk
 * zone-tailed hawk

Related terms

 * creshawk
 * goshawk
 * sparhawk

Verb

 * 1)  To hunt with a hawk.
 * 2) * 2003, Brenda Joyce, House of Dreams, page 175:
 * He rode astride while hawking:; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.

Noun

 * 1) 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.

Synonyms

 * mortarboard

Derived terms

 * hawk boy, hawk-boy

Verb

 * 1)  To sell.
 * The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square.

Derived terms

 * hawked
 * hawking
 * hawky

Related terms

 * hawker

Verb

 * 1)  To forcibly attempt to cough up (phlegm).
 * Jim hawked up some spit and spat it on the sidewalk.
 * 1)  To clear the throat loudly.
 * Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.

Derived terms

 * hawking

Verbs for Hawk
alights; —attacks; —dashes; —destroys;—dodges; —floats; —glides; —gyrates; — pounces on; —preys on; —prowls about; — sails; —scans; —screams; —screeches; — seizes; —severs; —skims; —soars; —somersaults; —squeals; —sweeps down; —twists;—swerves; —swoops; —wheels around; — whistles.

Thesaurus
Argus, beat, cat, chase, chauvinist, course, dispense, dog, dribble, drive, drivel, drool, eagle, expectorate, falcon, ferret, flush, follow the hounds, fowl, go hunting, gun, hound, huckster, hunt, hunt down, jack, jacklight, jingo, jingoist, lynx, militarist, monger, peddle, prowl after, ride to hounds, run, salivate, shikar, shoot, slabber, slaver, slobber, spew, spit, sport, stalk, start, still-hunt, track, trail, vend, war dog, war hawk, warmonger, weasel

Etymology 1
hauk:, from hafoc:, from  (compare West Frisian hauk:,  havik:,  Habicht:), from  (compare  capys:, capus: 'bird of prey',  gabonjë:, shkabë: 'eagle',  кобец: 'falcon').

Etymology 4
Possibly

Noun

 * Ancient Greek: ,
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: falcó; aligot
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鷹, 鹰
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: rajawali
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh:


 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: vanags
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: clamhan, seabhag
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kipanga
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: tòkeną
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Volapük: hauk,  hihauk,  jihauk,  haukül,  fäon
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:


 * Armenian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 鷹派, タカ派
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:


 * : falcó
 * : ᏙᏬᏗ (dowodi)
 * : 鹰 (yīng)，隼 (sǔn)
 * : akcipitro
 * (Low German): Havik, Haavk


 * : hauk m
 * : şoim
 * : gavilán
 * : డేగ (Daega)
 * : doğan

Verb

 * Italian: cacciare col falco

Derived terms

 * hawk after
 * hawk at
 * hawk for
 * hawking

Noun

 * Danish: mørtelbræt


 * Italian:, ,

Verb

 * Danish: falbyde
 * French:


 * Italian: vendere per strada, vendere porta a porta

Verb

 * Bosnian: iskašljati, iskašljavati
 * Danish: harke, rømme sig
 * Italian: raschiare la gola


 * Latin: conscreor
 * Swedish: harkla sig