hawk
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From Old English hafoc, from Proto-Germanic *habuka, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“‘to hold’”).
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hawk (plural hawks)
- A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae.
- It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.
- (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions.
- The hawks controlled the senate, so the Minister of War had few problems with his budget.
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- (in politics): dove
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- Catalan: falcó
- Cherokee: ᏙᏬᏗ (dowodi)
- Chinese: 鹰 (yīng)，隼 (sǔn)
- Esperanto: akcipitro
- Latin: accipiter
- Low Saxon (Low German): Havik, Haavk m.
- Norwegian: hauk m
- Romanian: şoim m.
- Spanish: gavilán m.
- Telugu: డేగ (Daega)
- Turkish: doğan
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to hawk (third-person singular simple present hawks, present participle hawking, simple past and past participle hawked)
- (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
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hawk (plural hawks)
- 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.
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Back-formation from hawker.
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to hawk (third-person singular simple present hawks, present participle hawking, simple past and past participle hawked)
- (transitive) To sell.
- The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square.
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to hawk (third-person singular simple present hawks, present participle hawking, simple past and past participle hawked)
- (transitive) To forcibly attempt to cough up (phlegm).
- Jim hawked up some spit and spat it on the sidewalk.
- (intransitive) To clear the throat loudly.
- Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.
