Haggard

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A hunting bird captured as an adult.
3. A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
   Ireland, Scotland, dialectal
4. An unincorporated community in Gray County, Kansas, United States.
5. A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
6. A fierce, intractable creature.
   obsolete
7. A hag.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful; I know⟳ her spirits are as coy and wild As haggards of the rock.”

“1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced”

“I have⟳ loved this proud disdainful haggard.”

“In a dark Grott the baleful Haggard lay⟳, Breathing black Vengeance, and infecting Day”

“He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm”

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