fish-hawk

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“For a real delicacy, commend me to a good old fish-hawk. The flesh is as black as a sloe, and it is first-rate exercise for the jaws.”

“Mr. Davis said he had been much interested all the morning watching from the grated embrasure, near which his bed lay⟳, the free flight of fish-hawks, so plentiful during the summer in Hampton Roads, and some of which still lingered.”

“Eagles and fish-hawks were the only birds visible in this part of the Winnipeg, the other species of the feathered tribe being in the rice-fields.”

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