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  • noun A person with keen eyesight.
  • noun US A native or inhabitant of Iowa.

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Examples

  • Her school in Doncaster reached the finals of Miss Dance Great Britain, with a mean performance of Michael Jackson's HIStory in London's West End. She takes naturally to the performance that all teachers have to mount; but the calm hawk-eye is there, too, watching for any of the 36 year 6s who are struggling or losing concentration.

    Outstanding new teacher: dazzling performer Martin Wainwright 2010

  • Like Haraket, all wore a hawk-eye talisman at their throats.

    Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • Vetch noted without surprise that Baken wore a hawk-eye talisman made, not of the usual pottery, but one like Haraket sported, cast from silver and inlaid with enamel.

    Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • His square head was shaven, though he did not wear a wig, his skin as browned and weathered as that of any farmer, and he wore a hawk-eye amulet of glazed pottery around his neck.

    Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • Hair damp, freshly kilted, wearing the glazed hawk-eye talisman, he followed in the wake of the last of the boys, knowing there were other chores that needed doing between now and when the dragons returned.

    Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • Very few wore ornaments other than the hawk-eye talisman either.

    Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • A set of shaven-headed acrobats cavorted on the third, and a group of men with the hawk-eye amulets were lounging at a feast on the fourth.

    Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • I get this protective, hawk-eye attitude when Jen goes out with someone.

    Friends, Sisters, Dating and FRIDAY!! barbylon 2001

  • I get this protective, hawk-eye attitude when Jen goes out with someone.

    Friends, Sisters, Dating and FRIDAY!! barbylon 2001

  • "The next one won't miss, hawk-eye," Chlorine said.

    Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996

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