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HAWK
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : from Middle English hauek ‘hawk’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a hawker (see Hawker), a name denoting a tenant who held land in return for providing hawks for his lord, or a nickname for someone supposedly resembling a hawk. There was an Old English personal name (originally a byname) H(e)afoc ‘hawk’, which persisted into the early Middle English period as a personal name and may therefore also be a source.English (Devon) : topographic name for someone who lived in an isolated nook, from Middle English halke (derived from Old English halh + the diminutive suffix -oc), or a habitational name from some minor place named with this word, such as Halke in Sheldwich, Kent.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : nickname or occupational name for someone who hunted hares, or who was thought to resemble a breed of dog used in hunting hares.English and Scottish : nickname for someone thought to resemble a harrier, a kind of hawk, Middle English harrower.English and Scottish : nickname for a raider or plunderer, from an agent noun derived from Middle English herian, Old English her(g)ian ‘to harry’, ‘plunder’, ‘ravage’.
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German
German : variant of Hauck.English : variant of Hawk.
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Dutch
Dutch : occupational name for a hawker or travelling salesman, Middle Dutch me(e)rseman.Dutch : habitational name for someone from any of numerous places named ter or de Meers(ch).German : unexplained; possibly a variant of Massmann.English : unexplained.
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English
English : topographic name from Middle English hauk, hauek ‘hawk’ + ley(e) ‘open country’, ‘grassland’, ‘field’, or a habitational name from Hawkesley Hall in King’s Norton, Worcestershire, named from the Old English personal name Heafoc or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’, ‘clearing’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
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English (mainly central and southeastern England)
English (mainly central and southeastern England) : patronymic from a personal name (see Hawk 1), or a variant of Hawk 2.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : nickname meaning ‘hawk eye’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Hawk.
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English (Cheshire)
English (Cheshire) : variant of Hawksworth.
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English
English : patronymic from the Middle English personal name Hawkin, a diminutive of Hawk 1 with the Anglo-Norman French hypocoristic suffix -in.English : in the case of one family (see note below), this is a variant of Hawkinge, a habitational name from a place in Kent, so called from Old English Hafocing ‘hawk place’.Irish : sometimes used as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó hEacháin (see Haughn).
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English
English : from an Old English nickname mǣw, mēaw ‘seagull’, or the same word used as a personal name, Mēawa. Compare Maw.English : metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of a mew, a cage for hawks and falcons, especially while moulting, from Old French mue, a derivative of muer ‘to moult’ (from Latin mutare ‘to change’).
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English
English : topographic name from Middle English haw, haugh ‘enclosure’ (Old English haga), or a habitational name from a place named with this word such as The Haw in Tirley, Gloucestershire. Compare Haugh 2.English : from a Middle English personal name, probably a back-formation from Hawkin, (see Hawkins).Scottish : habitational name from an unidentified place in lowland Scotland.
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English (southern)
English (southern) : from Middle English hoke, Old English hÅc ‘hook’, in any of a variety of senses: as a metonymic occupational name for someone who made and sold hooks as agricultural implements or employed them in his work; as a topographic name for someone who lived by a ‘hook’ of land, i.e. the bend of a river or the spur of a hill; or as a nickname (in part a survival of an Old English byname) for someone with a hunched back or a hooked nose. A similar ambiguity of interpretation presents itself in the case of Crook. In some cases the surname may be habitational from any of various places named Hook(e), from this word, as for example in Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Surrey, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire.Swedish (Hö(ö)k) : nickname or a metonymic occupational name from hök ‘hawk’, a soldier’s name.
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English (Somerset) and German (also Hücker)
English (Somerset) and German (also Hücker) : occupational name for a peddler or other tradesman, Middle English hucker, hukker (an agent derivative of hukken ‘to hawk or trade’), Middle High German hucker.
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English
English : occupational name for someone who bred and trained hawks, Middle English haueker (an agent derivative of haueke ‘hawk’). Hawking was a major medieval sport, and the provision and training of hawks for a feudal lord was a not uncommon obligation in lieu of rent. The right of any free man to keep hawks for his own use was conceded in Magna Carta (though social status determined what kind of bird someone could keep, the kestrel being the lowest grade).
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English (chiefly South Yorkshire)
English (chiefly South Yorkshire) : habitational name from a place called Hawksworth; there is one in West Yorkshire, named from the Old English personal name Hafoc ‘hawk’ + Old English worð ‘enclosure’; another, in Nottinghamshire, is probably named from the Old English personal name Hoc + worð.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : from a Middle English personal name (see Hawkins).
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English
English : presumably a variant spelling of Jessey, which, as Reaney suggests, may be a metonymic occupational name for a maker of jesses for hawks, Middle English jesse.
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English
English : variant of or patronymic from Hawk.
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English : patronymic from the personal name Hawkin (see Hawkins 1).
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n.
Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough-legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard.
n.
A ring for fastening a hawk's leash to the jesses; also, a ring affixed to the collar of a dog, etc.
v. i.
To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
v.
Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare.
v. i.
To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.
v. t.
To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled; hence, to give light to; to enlighten.
n.
A disease in a hawk.
imp. & p. p.
of Hawk
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Hawk
n.
A kind of hood for a hawk.
v. i.
To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry.
n.
The American hawk owl. See under Hawk.
n.
The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air.
a.
Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.
n.
One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, esp. of a hawk.
v. t.
To offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets.
n.
One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk.
v. i.
To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies.
v. t.
To raise by hawking, as phlegm.