Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of hawk.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Naut.), obsolete See futtock.
  • noun Prov. Eng., Prov. Eng. The European kite.
  • noun Prov. Eng., Prov. Eng. The buzzard.
  • noun Prov. Eng. The marsh harrier.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of several birds of prey including the red kite, buzzard or marsh harrier
  • noun nautical The futtock

Etymologies

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Origin uncertain; perhaps representing an unattested Old English *putta ("hawk").

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