Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a bill or beak like or likened to a hawk's: as, a hawk-billed turtle.

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  • adjective Having a bill or beak shaped like that of a hawk.

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Examples

  • Perhaps best described as half the calories and all the taste of the Alfa 8C Competizione, the hawk-billed little sports car—about the size of a Mazda Miata—utterly killed on the show stand.

    In Geneva, Guessing at a Gas-Guzzling Future Dan Neil 2011

  • AFP/Getty Images Best described as half the calories and all the taste of the Alfa 8C Competizione, the hawk-billed little sports car -- about the size of a Mazda Miata -- utterly killed on the show stand, Neil said.

    A Gas-Guzzling Future? 2011

  • A sharp hawk-billed knife will be useful in cutting off the loose bark.

    Studies of Trees Jacob Joshua Levison

  • New York -- the hawk-billed conductor whose shining pate used to glisten like a stage lamp from the conductor's seat in the fine old house at Fourteenth Street and Irving Place.

    Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888

  • This was a keen-eyed, hawk-billed, wiry veteran of the '48.

    Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861

  • There are two sorts of turtle found on the shores of the islands of these seas -- the hawk-billed and the green turtle -- Mr Henley told me.

    My First Voyage to Southern Seas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Ducati kicked off its television advertising campaign by showing off its hawk-billed adventure tourer tackling everything from urban assault missions to gravel paths and everything in between.

    Autoblog Devon Brozek 2010

  • Ducati kicked off its television advertising campaign by showing off its hawk-billed adventure tourer tackling everything from urban assault missions to gravel paths and everything in between.

    Autoblog Devon Brozek 2010

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