Definitions
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 .
Etymologies
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P. P.S I notice you have sparhawk in your email address.
10 Ways to Make Your Wordpess Blog Rock | Fantasy Fiction - Brian Rathbone.com 2008
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Of foule they haue diuers of the principal kinds: First, great store of hawks, the eagle, the gerfaulcon, the slightfaulcon, the goshawk, the tassel, the sparhawk, &c.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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It is said that the sparhawk pryeth not upon the fowl in the morning, that she taketh over even, but as loath to have double benefit by one seelie fowl doth let it go to make some shift for itself.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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We have also the lanner and the lanneret, the tersel and the goshawk, the musket and the sparhawk, the jack and the hobby, and finally some
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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So this I find among the writers worthy the noting: that the sparhawk is enemy to young children, as is also the ape, but of the peacock she is marvellously afraid, and so appalled that all courage and stomach for
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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We have also the lanner and the lanneret, the tersel and the goshawk, the musket and the sparhawk, the jack and the hobby, and finally some (though very few) marleons.
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So this I find among the writers worthy the noting: that the sparhawk is enemy to young children, as is also the ape, but of the peacock she is marvellously afraid, and so appalled that all courage and stomach for a time is taken from her upon the sight thereof.
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It is said that the sparhawk pryeth not upon the fowl in the morning, that she taketh over even, but as loath to have double benefit by one seelie fowl doth let it go to make some shift for itself.
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If it were to go a hawking, or a hunting, the ladies mounted upon dainty well-paced nags, seated in a stately palfrey saddle, carried on their lovely fists either a sparhawk, or a laneret, or a marlin, and the young gallants carried the other kinds of hawks.
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 Various 1904
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"'You are a wise crow,' said the eagle; and he went out and killed the sparhawk, and took his wood."
Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847
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