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- noun Plural form of
hawk . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
hawk .
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Examples
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But if it were known to all that I know to have benn performed of late in Essex, where a minister taking a benefice (of less than twenty pounds in the Queens books so far as I remember) was enforced to pay to his patron twenty quarters of oats, ten quarters of wheat, and sixteen yearly of barley (which he called hawks meat), and another let the like in farm to his patron for ten pounds by the year which is well worth forty at the least, the cause of our threadbare gowns would easily appear: for such patrons do scrape the wool from our cloaks.
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Since iguanas are preyed upon by hawks, their fear of hawks is exploited by blowing a hawk's whistle which makes the iguana freeze and become easier to capture in the wild.
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OurFiscalSecurity, as a counterweight to the power of the deficit hawks, is sorely needed.
Robert Kuttner: Recovery, Please Robert Kuttner 2010
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OurFiscalSecurity, as a counterweight to the power of the deficit hawks, is sorely needed.
Robert Kuttner: Recovery, Please Robert Kuttner 2010
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The description of White Fang's initial experiences as a cub are elementary adventures in their quality, despite Maxwell Geismar's claim that the tone of the battles with the ptarmigan chicks and the hawks is “lyrical.”
Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang 2010
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OurFiscalSecurity, as a counterweight to the power of the deficit hawks, is sorely needed.
Robert Kuttner: Recovery, Please Robert Kuttner 2010
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Since iguanas are preyed upon by hawks, their fear of hawks is exploited by blowing a hawk's whistle which makes the iguana freeze and become easier to capture in the wild.
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Both men are known as "hawks" within the Fed, meaning they are sometimes reluctant to take new steps to bolster markets or the economy, in part out of fear of igniting inflation.
Fed Officials See No New Move Jon Hilsenrath 2011
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New York knowing about hawks is a stretch of the imagination too far for anyone to make.
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Beside any blog that has stories about dachshund puppies being saved from hawks, is making a huge contribution to the blogosphere!
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