Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hawk of the genus Morphnus, as the Guiana eagle-hawk, M. guianensis. G. Cuvier.
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Examples
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“With your arms out, saying you were a great red-tailed eagle-hawk!”
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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“With your arms out, saying you were a great red-tailed eagle-hawk!”
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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“With your arms out, saying you were a great red-tailed eagle-hawk!”
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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“With your arms out, saying you were a great red-tailed eagle-hawk!”
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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“With your arms out, saying you were a great red-tailed eagle-hawk!”
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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“With your arms out, saying you were a great red-tailed eagle-hawk!”
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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Hegg was only a perfected eagle-hawk away from ignominy.
Moxie: Who Needs It? BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Then an old ‘possum would sing out, or a black-furred flying squirrel — pongos, the blacks call ’em — would come sailing down from the top of an ironbark tree, with all his stern sails spread, as the sailors say, and into the branches of another, looking as big as an eagle-hawk.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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The great wedge-tailed eagle (eagle-hawk) is a rare visitor, and is not a fisher.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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Of the hawk tribe, the varieties are numerous: the largest is the eagle-hawk, which now and then carries off a lamb from the flocks of careless shepherds.
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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