(n.) One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk.
(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.
(v. i.) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies.
(v. i.) To clear the throat with an audible sound by forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the removal of foreign substances.
(v. t.) To raise by hawking, as phlegm.
(n.) An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.
(v. t.) To offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets.
(n.) A small board, with a handle on the under side, to hold mortar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
(2) McQueen later worked for Gieves & Hawkes and the theatre costumiers Angels , before being employed, aged 20, by Koji Tatsuno , a Japanese designer with links to London.
(3) Hawking's latest comments go beyond those laid out in his 2010 book, The Grand Design , in which he asserted that there is no need for a creator to explain the existence of the universe.
(4) [Hawkes, G. E., Lian, L. Y., Randall, E. W., Sales, K. D. & Curzon, E. H. (1987) Eur.
(5) Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963 and given two years to live.
(6) Verdict Black Hawk Down tiptoes carefully around the facts when it deals with US troops, but its interpretation of history is flimsy, one-sided, and politically questionable.
(7) He says that two dozen Delta Force commandos, Black Hawk helicopters, drones and fighter jets were involved in the rescue, adding “but we weren’t there”.
(8) One thing he never does is offer to let people stroke the harris hawk.
(9) This year, on the first day, I bumped into a fellow market regular who was hawking a DVD title (no longer a badge of shame).
(10) Last summer, during the clamour for Britain to intervene militarily in Syria, he was one of the loudest hawks.
(11) "We'll be watching them like hawks," said Jim Winkworth, a farmer and pub landlord, as he watched work starting on a bend in the Parrett between Burrowbridge and Moorland, two of the villages worst affected by the winter flooding.
(12) A rash of bumper pay deals would support the argument of the hawks, who believe interest rates should be raised to clamp down on inflation.
(13) Rap group Migos were stopped from riding their IO Hawks through a shopping centre when they launched their own clothing line, and Khalifa has used a similar device ( the PhunkeeDuck ) while shopping.
(14) Cyber is portrayed as something you have to be Stephen Hawking to understand “When I go to cyber seminars the vast majority of people who attend are men,” she says.
(15) Early on Sunday morning, Malcolm Turnbull looked out to the Australian electorate and expressed his own profound alienation from the lived experiences of the losers of globalisation – the people who had flocked to Nick Xenophon and Pauline Hanson and to Labor on the basis that the ALP had climbed down partially from the neoliberal pedestal constructed by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
(16) US hawks, such as senator Lindsey Graham, had suggested a boycott in retaliation for allowing Snowden to remain in the country.
(17) There are recorded messages from Stephen Hawking, who hopes to be among the first passengers, and the young human rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai.
(18) As Howard Hawks's Monkey Business showed, you could even set a screwball comedy in a vivisection lab.
(19) The belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
(20) US farmers are in the middle of the worst drought they've faced in half a century , and pressure is growing from Democrats, farm lobbies, and deficit hawks for Congress to enact the new law.
Hawker
Definition:
(n.) One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
(v. i.) To sell goods by outcry in the street.
(n.) A falconer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hawkers say Christmas time, when westerners flock to offload clothes to charity shops, brings in the biggest bales.
(2) Rudd's replacement, according to the veteran Labor campaign strategist Bruce Hawker, saw Labor's vote collapse: "Now, if an election was held tomorrow, Labor would lose 30 seats," he said.
(3) The choatic scenes on first night of the lunar new year were prompted by a government decision to clear a central Hong Kong market of unlicensed food hawkers.
(4) Hawker, like Crosby, also has a range of commercial and public sector clients.
(5) One small shareholder, who introduced himself as Captain Hawker, said BP had stepped into a “PR nightmare” by handing out such largesse when the rest of the country was mired in austerity.
(6) Hawker and Crosby have been longstanding rivals in Australia and according to one insider "are able to guess what the other guy is going to think before he thinks it".
(7) Compared with control subjects in identical classes, the hawkers were on the average 2 years older in age, were of poorer physique, and had lower hemoglobin values.
(8) No Tesco executives will ever board the jet, as he has put it up for sale – along with the rest of the Tesco fleet, which includes a Hawker 800 and two Cessna Citations.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Further footage has emerged showing the Hawker Hunter jet crashing onto the A27 in Shoreham, West Sussex after it failed to pull out of a loop manoeuvre However, Learmount said that safety at airshows was vigorously controlled and fatalities involving people other than pilots are extremely rare.
(10) People will still travel halfway across the country on their own dime to hear him speak, and hawkers still sell T-shirts at his events.
(11) Perplexed at the sight of hawkers on a highway, I strain to see what they are trying to sell me.
(12) I think it's up to the Labor party to get behind the leader," Bruce Hawker, longtime Labor strategist and the man who ran Rudd's challenge against Gillard last year, told ABC TV.
(13) Speaking on Sky News, Bruce Hawker – the man who orchestrated Kevin Rudd’s last leadership challenge – urged Rudd to stand in the ballot.
(14) Memories of the Conchords’ nearby flat at 41 Hawker Street provided the inspiration.
(15) Chantelle Kanimo, an 18-year-old hawker, said young Kenyans would not fight again.
(16) While footage of the Shoreham crash suggests casualties may have included people watching unofficially from the roadside, the Hawker crashed well away from the show’s crowd.
(17) (Hopefully Bishop can avoid the boilover that happened the last time she sought the job, in 2004 .. when she lost out to the Victorian MP, David Hawker.
(18) In a blogpost , Hawker wrote: "Cameron now lacks authenticity – his early centrist rhetoric bears no resemblance to the austerity drive he has mounted.
(19) Undeterred by the small army of security, several hundred cheery visitors had massed at the cathedral barriers by 6am, some wearing brightly colored shirts labeled by their parish, others lining up to buy Vatican flags from hawkers, and a few giving change to the homeless people who wandered near the edges.
(20) Such is the snail's pace of morning traffic that hawkers patrol the queues selling socks and phone chargers, McVitie's digestives and shaving kits.