goshawk

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Wire cutters were used to take the five-year-old male goshawk, which is grey on top and a cream speckled colour underneath, from a weathering, where it is kept for breeding purposes, between 9pm on Wednesday, March 4, and 7am on Thursday, March 5.

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  1. noun A large powerful hawk (Accipiter gentilis) having broad rounded wings, a long tail, and gray or brownish plumage.
  2. noun Any of several similar or related hawks.

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  • Then, using the owl's information, he'd dive blind through the screen of foliage just like a goshawk going for a rabbit in the brush, and with any luck, he'd get a deer before the deer knew he was there. —  Owlsight
  • He grabbed a chair, whirled with the speed of a striking goshawk, and intercepted the weapon as the man brought it down toward the point where his back had been a heartbeat before. —  The Eagle And The Nightingale
  • An even heavier glove would have been necessary for a goshawk - a shorter winged hawk whose sharp talons and viselike grip were much more dangerous than the more delicate hold of the peregrine. —  From This Beloved Hour
  • Wire cutters were used to take the five-year-old male goshawk, which is grey on top and a cream speckled colour underneath, from a weathering, where it is kept for breeding purposes, between 9pm on Wednesday, March 4, and 7am on Thursday, March 5. —  HX News and Sport
  • And a goshawk is the fiercest of all the hawks there are. —  Sleepy-Time Tales: the Tale of Fatty Coon
 

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  1. Middle English goshauk, from Old English gōshafoc : gōs, goose; see goose + hafoc, hawk; see hawk1.

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  1. With orig. long vowel o shortened before two consonants; from Middle English goshawk, goshauk, from Anglo-Saxon gōshafoc (= Old High German ganshapich, German gänsehabicht = Icelandic gāshaukr), i. e., ‘goose-hawk,’ so called from being flown at geese, from gōs, goose, + hafoc, hawk.
 

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