hawk

Meanings

Noun

• A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
• Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.
• Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia (genus) and Austrocordulia (genus), endemic to Australia.
• An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.
• An uncooperative or purely-selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the Prisoner's Dilemma, alias the Hawk-Dove game.
• 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.
• A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat.

Verb

• To hunt with a hawk.
• To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
• To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
• To expectorate, to cough up something from one's throat.
• To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly.

Related

Similar words

• hawking

Narrower meaning words

• aspere-hawk
• ball hawk
• bat hawk
• bay-winged hawk
• bee hawk
• bicoloured hawk
• bird hawk
• black hawk
• blue hawk
• broad-winged hawk
• brown hawk
• bush hawk
• buteo hawk
• buzzard hawk
• carrion hawk
• cherry hawk
• chicken hawk, chicken-hawk, chickenhawk
• cliff hawk
• common black hawk
• Cooper's hawk
• crane hawk
• crested hawk
• cuckoo 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
• gopher hawk
• grasshopper 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's hawk
• Hawaiian hawk
• hen hawk, hen-hawk
• hobby hawk
• hover-hawk
• jack-hawk
• jashawk
• Jayhawk
• jiddy hawk
• killy hawk
• kitchen hawk
• kite hawk
• kitty hawk
• 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
• molly hawk
• moor hawk
• mosquito hawk
• moth-hawk
• mountain hawk
• mouse hawk, mouse-hawk
• mullet hawk
• news-hawk, newshawk
• night hawk, night-hawk
• pap-hawk
• partridge-hawk
• passage hawk
• peregrine hawk
• perry hawk
• pigeon hawk, pigeon-hawk
• plain-breasted hawk
• pondhawk
• prairie hawk
• quail hawk
• red hawk
• red-shouldered hawk
• red-tailed hawk
• Ridgway's hawk
• ringtail hawk
• rock hawk
• rook 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
• mul
• snake hawk
• snipe hawk
• 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
• whistling hawk
• white-breasted hawk
• white-throated hawk
• white hawk
• zone-tailed hawk

Origin

• From Middle English hauk, hauke, hawke, havek, from Old English hafoc, from Proto-West Germanic *habuk, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz (compare 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), from Proto-Indo-European *kopuǵos (compare Latin capys, capus, Albanian gabonjë, shkabë, Russian ко́бец ("falcon"), Polish kobuz ("Eurasian Hobby")), perhaps ultimately derived from *keh₂p-.
• Uncertain origin; perhaps from Middle English hache, or from a variant use of the above.