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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A contracted form of sparrow-hawk.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The sparrow hawk.

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  • noun UK, dialect Alternative form of sparrow hawk.

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Old English sperhauke.

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