Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variant of
heronsew .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A heron.
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- noun UK a young
grey heron .
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Examples
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The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries unquestionably saw a great advance in the mystery of cookery and in the diversity of dishes, and the author of “Piers of Fulham” complains, that men were no longer satisfied with brawn and powdered beef, which he terms “store of house,” but would have venison, wild fowl, and heronshaw; and men of simple estate, says he, will have partridges and plovers, when lords lack.
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The latter possesses such a penetrating glance for the nature of things as to be able to distinguish the bird (the heronshaw) that is to be pursued from the hawk that has been unhooded and cast.
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handshaw (heronshaw!). '
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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The spelling _heronshaw_ misled Cotgrave, &c.; he has
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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‘In actual application a _heronshaw_, _hernshaw_ or _hernsew_, is simply a
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
yarb commented on the word heronshaw
A heron.
September 20, 2008