Definitions for HAWK
hɔkhawk

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hawknoun

   diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail

2. hawk, war hawknoun

   an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations

3. mortarboard, hawkverb

   a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar

4. peddle, monger, huckster, hawk, vend, pitchverb

   sell or offer for sale from place to place

5. hawkverb

   hunt with hawks

   "the tribes like to hawk in the desert"

6. clear the throat, hawkverb

   clear mucus or food from one's throat

   "he cleared his throat before he started to speak"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hawknoun

   A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.

2. hawkverb

   To sell.

   The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square.

3. hawknoun

   An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.

4. hawkverb

   To forcibly attempt to cough up (phlegm).

   Jim hawked up some spit and spat it on the sidewalk.

5. hawkverb

   To clear the throat loudly.

   Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.

6. Etymology: hauk, from hafoc, from habukaz (compare West Frisian hauk, havik, Habicht), from kobuĝo (compare capys, capus 'bird of prey', gabonjë, shkabë 'eagle', кобец 'falcon').

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hawknoun

   Etymology: hæbeg, Welsh; hafoc, Saxon.

   1. A bird of prey, used much anciently in sport to catch other birds.

   Do’st thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar
   Above the morning lark. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew.

   It can be no more disgrace to a great lord to draw a fair picture, than to cut his hawk’s meat. Henry Peacham, on Drawing.

   Whence borne on liquid wing
   The sounding culver shoots; or where the hawk,
   High in the beetling cliff, his airy builds. James Thomson, Spring.

   2. [ Hoch, Welsh.]An effort to force phlegm up the throat.

2. To Hawkverb

   Etymology: from hawk.

   1. To fly hawks at fowls; to catch birds by means of a hawk.

   ’Tis his highness’ pleasure
   You do prepare to ride unto St. Alban’s,
   Whereas the king and queen do mean to hawk. William Shakespeare.

   Do’st thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar
   Above the morning lark. William Shakespeare.

   One followed study and knowledge, and another hawking and hunting. John Locke.

   He that hawks at larks and sparrows has no less sport, though a much less considerable quarry, than he that flies at nobler game. John Locke.

   A falc’ner Henry is, when Emma hawks;
   With her of tarsels and of lures he talks. Matthew Prior.

   2. To fly at; to attack on the wing.

   A faulcon tow’ring in her pride of place,
   Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d. William Shakespeare, Macb.

   Whether upward to the moon they go,
   Or dream the Winter out in caves below,
   Or hawk at flies elsewhere, concerns us not to know. Dry.

   3. [ Hoch, Welsh.] To force up phlegm with a noise.

   Come, sit, sit, and a song. ———— Shall we clap into’t roundly, without hawking or spitting, or saying we are hoarse, which are the only prologues to a bad voice. William Shakespeare.

   She complained of a soreness of her throat, and of a stinking tough phlegm which she hawked up in the mornings. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

   Blood, cast out of the throat or windpipe, is spit out with a hawking or small cough; that out of the gums is spit out without hawking, coughing, or vomiting. Gideon Harvey, on Consumpt.

   4. To sell by proclaiming it in the streets. [From hock, German, a salesman.]

   His works were hawk’d in ev’ry street;
   But seldom rose above a sheet. Jonathan Swift.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HAWK

   The Raytheon MIM-23 HAWK ("Homing all the way killer") is an American medium-range surface-to-air missile. It was designed to be a much more mobile counterpart to the MIM-14 Nike Hercules, trading off range and altitude capability for a much smaller size and weight. Its low-level performance was greatly improved over Nike through the adoption of new radars and a continuous wave semi-active radar homing guidance system. It entered service with the US Army in 1959. In 1971 it underwent a major improvement program as the Improved Hawk, or I-Hawk, which made several improvements to the missile and replaced all of the radar systems with new models. Improvements continued throughout the next twenty years, adding improved ECCM, a potential home-on-jam feature, and in 1995, a new warhead that made it capable against short-range tactical missiles. Jane's reported that the original system's single shot kill probability was 0.56; I-Hawk improved this to 0.85.Hawk was superseded by the MIM-104 Patriot in US Army service by 1994. The last US user was the US Marine Corps, who used theirs until 2002 when they were replaced with the man-portable short-range FIM-92 Stinger. The missile was also produced outside the US in Western Europe, Japan and Iran. The US never used the Hawk in combat, but it has been employed numerous times by other nations. Approximately 40,000 of the missiles were produced.

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1. hawk

   A hawk is a type of bird of prey, typically smaller than an eagle or a vulture, known for its sharp vision and swift, powerful flight. Hawks belong to the family Accipitridae and they tend to reside in a variety of habitats including forests, open fields, marshes and deserts. They prey on small animals like rodents, reptiles, or other birds. The term "hawk" is sometimes used more broadly to include other birds in the raptor family.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hawknoun

   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

2. Hawkverb

   to catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry

3. Hawkverb

   to make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies

4. Hawkverb

   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

5. Hawkverb

   to raise by hawking, as phlegm

6. Hawknoun

   an effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise

7. Hawkverb

   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

8. Hawknoun

   a small board, with a handle on the under side, to hold mortar

9. Etymology: [W. hochi.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hawk

   Hawk is a common name for some birds of prey, widely distributed and varying greatly in size. ⁕In Australia and Africa hawks include some of the species in the subfamily Accipitrinae, which comprises the genera Accipiter, Micronisus, Melierax, Urotriorchis and Megatriorchis. The large and widespread Accipiter genus includes goshawks, sparrowhawks, the Sharp-shinned Hawk and others. These are mainly woodland birds with long tails and high visual acuity, hunting by sudden dashes from a concealed perch. ⁕In North America the term includes falcons and small to medium-sized members of the Accipitridae—the family which includes the "true hawks" as well as eagles, kites, harriers and buzzards. Owls are members of the order Strigiformes and are not hawks. The common names of some birds include the term "hawk", reflecting traditional usage rather than taxonomy, such as referring to an Osprey as a "fish hawk" or the Buteo species B. jamaicensis as a Red-tailed Hawk.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hawk

   hawk, n. the name of several birds of prey allied to the falcons: a rapacious person.—v.i. to hunt birds with hawks trained for the purpose: to attack on the wing.—ns. Hawk′-bell, a small bell attached to a hawk's leg; Hawk′bit, a genus of plants of order Compositæ, closely related to the dandelion; Hawk′er.—adj. Hawk′-eyed.—n. Hawk′ing.—adj. Hawk′ish.—n. Hawk′-moth, a very large kind of moth, so called from its hovering motion.—adj. Hawk′-nosed, having a nose like a hawk's beak.—ns. Hawks′beard, a genus of annual and biennial plants of order Compositæ, closely related to hawkweed; Hawk′weed, a genus of perennial plants of order Compositæ.—Know a hawk from a handsaw (prob. for hernshaw), to be able to judge between things pretty well. [A.S. hafoc; Dut. havik, Ger. habicht, Ice. haukr.]

2. Hawk

   hawk, v.i. to force up matter from the throat.—n. the effort to do this. [Imit.]

3. Hawk

   hawk, n. a plasterer's tool.

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1. hawkverb

   To look at something.

2. hawkverb

   Cold temperature. "Its hawkin outside"

3. hawknoun

   A knife or blade. The hawk is out but the niggaz never pack it -- Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth (Ghettos of the Mind), Banner had 'em on the hawk since Atlanta extravaganza -- De La Soul (Much More)

4. hawknoun

   The wind, especially when it is blowing hard.

5. hawknoun

   Slang for 'Desert Eagle'

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1. HAWK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hawk is ranked #2149 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Hawk surname appeared 16,884 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 6 would have the surname Hawk.
   
   85.6% or 14,466 total occurrences were White.
   6.9% or 1,167 total occurrences were Black.
   2.9% or 500 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   2.2% or 380 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.6% or 282 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.5% or 89 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Bird Of Prey
   • Cough
   • Hunt
   • Sell

How to pronounce HAWK?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say HAWK in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of HAWK in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of HAWK in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of HAWK in a Sentence

1. James Melka:

   Nobody's gonna know ... what a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier was, they'll just see pictures. They won't be able to see the actual ship and be able to walk on it.

2. The Post:

   To continue to hawk products emblazoned with this vile phrase puts the lives of Police Officers, and all law enforcement nationwide, at peril and risk.

3. Stephanie Drumheller:

   Allosaurus might not have been as big as T. rex, but it was no slouch as an apex predator, it was able to hyper-extend its jaw for a super-wide gape. It was a hatchet feeder like a hawk, meaning it would chop into prey with its head. It had long arms with grasping claws and a strong bite force. Track sites suggest it might have been a long-distance hunter that would follow herds for miles to pick off prey.

4. Carl Schuster:

   Must have been scary as hell, everyone on the Kitty Hawk expected the sub to go deep and were hoping to detect it on the other side.

5. The ARES study:

   From a virtually non-existent domestic market, the revolution and its aftermath paved the way for a large illicit arms trade to emerge, many of the players in this new market began to use new technologies to hawk their wares. Online sales via social media platforms are one of the tools currently being used for this purpose.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=HAWK
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hawk
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=HAWK
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawk
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/HAWK
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=HAWK
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=HAWK
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html