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English
English : presumably a variant spelling of Jessey, which, as Reaney suggests, may be a metonymic occupational name for a maker of jesses for hawks, Middle English jesse.
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English
English : variant of or patronymic from Hawk.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : from Middle English hauek ‘hawk’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a hawker (see Hawker), a name denoting a tenant who held land in return for providing hawks for his lord, or a nickname for someone supposedly resembling a hawk. There was an Old English personal name (originally a byname) H(e)afoc ‘hawk’, which persisted into the early Middle English period as a personal name and may therefore also be a source.English (Devon) : topographic name for someone who lived in an isolated nook, from Middle English halke (derived from Old English halh + the diminutive suffix -oc), or a habitational name from some minor place named with this word, such as Halke in Sheldwich, Kent.
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English : from an Old English nickname mǣw, mēaw ‘seagull’, or the same word used as a personal name, Mēawa. Compare Maw.English : metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of a mew, a cage for hawks and falcons, especially while moulting, from Old French mue, a derivative of muer ‘to moult’ (from Latin mutare ‘to change’).
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Where Hawks Fly
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Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Where Hawks Go
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Place of the hawks.
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English (chiefly South Yorkshire)
English (chiefly South Yorkshire) : habitational name from a place called Hawksworth; there is one in West Yorkshire, named from the Old English personal name Hafoc ‘hawk’ + Old English worð ‘enclosure’; another, in Nottinghamshire, is probably named from the Old English personal name Hoc + worð.
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English (Cheshire)
English (Cheshire) : variant of Hawksworth.
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English : topographic name from Middle English hauk, hauek ‘hawk’ + ley(e) ‘open country’, ‘grassland’, ‘field’, or a habitational name from Hawkesley Hall in King’s Norton, Worcestershire, named from the Old English personal name Heafoc or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’, ‘clearing’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
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Where Hawks Fly; Settlement on the Bank
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English : occupational name for someone who bred and trained hawks, Middle English haueker (an agent derivative of haueke ‘hawk’). Hawking was a major medieval sport, and the provision and training of hawks for a feudal lord was a not uncommon obligation in lieu of rent. The right of any free man to keep hawks for his own use was conceded in Magna Carta (though social status determined what kind of bird someone could keep, the kestrel being the lowest grade).
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v. i.
To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively.
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A cage for hawks; a mew. See 4th Mew, 1.
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A stable or range of stables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks.
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A small American bird (Tyrannus tyrannus, or T. Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even hawks and eagles, especially when they approach its nest in the breeding season. It is a typical tyrant flycatcher, taking various insects upon the wing. It is dark ash above, and blackish on the head and tail. The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges. It is white beneath, with a white terminal band on the tail. The feathers on the head of the adults show a bright orange basal spot when erected. Called also bee bird, and bee martin. Several Southern and Western species of Tyrannus are also called king birds.
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One who carries hawks on a cadge.
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One of several species of hawks or buzzards of the genus Circus which fly low and harry small animals or birds, -- as the European marsh harrier (Circus aerunginosus), and the hen harrier (C. cyaneus).
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A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
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A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
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A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
v. i.
To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry.
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A distemper in hawks.
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Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough-legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard.
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Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk.
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One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
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A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.
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A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural.
v. t.
To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.
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A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.
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The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.
v. i.
To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.