churk

Now, he would snarl and snap at the assailant in front -- anon, he must sieve himself round, and in like manner menace the more cowardly "churk" that was attacking him in the rear.

The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Mayne Reid 1850

Churk falcon number one had clawed him over the croup, but churk falcon number two had deprived him of his supper!

The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Mayne Reid 1850

This odd little episode, between the boar-hound and the churk falcons, had interrupted the conversation of the two brothers on the subject which Caspar had introduced.

The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Mayne Reid 1850

Never had he so regretted the deficiency in his structure that left him without those useful appendages; and had he been gifted with the "wand of a fairy," the use to which he would at that moment have applied it would have been to furnish himself with a pair, not of "beautiful wings" -- for that was a secondary consideration -- but of strong and long ones, such as would have enabled him to overhaul those churk falcons, and punish them for their unheard-of audacity.

The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Mayne Reid 1850