Definitions for Hawk

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Hawk hawk

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IPA: /hɔk/

Hawk is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in Hawk (ahkw).

Definitions for Hawk

noun

1. any of numerous birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, having a short, hooked beak, broad wings, and curved talons, often seen circling or swooping at low altitudes.
2. any of several similar, unrelated birds, as the nighthawk.
3. Informal. a person who preys on others, as a sharper.
4. Also called war hawk. Informal. a person, especially one in public office, who advocates war or a belligerent national attitude. Compare dove1 (def 5).
5. any person who pursues an aggressive policy in business, government, etc.:
6. a noisy effort to clear the throat.
7. a small, square board with a handle underneath it, used by plasterers and masons to hold plaster or mortar being applied.
8. a medium-range, mobile U.S. surface-to-air missile system.

verb (used with object)

1. to peddle or offer for sale by calling aloud in public.
2. to advertise or offer for sale:
3. to spread (rumors, news, etc.).
4. to raise by noisily clearing the throat:

verb (used without object)

1. to fly, or hunt on the wing, like a hawk.
2. to hunt with hawks.
3. to carry wares about for sale; peddle.
4. to make an effort to raise phlegm from the throat; clear the throat noisily.

Origin of Hawk

before 900; Middle English hauk(e), Old English hafoc; cognate with Old Frisian havek, Old Saxon habuc Old High German habuh, Old Norse haukr hawk, perhaps Polish kobuz kind of falcon

Examples for Hawk

The NSPG meeting defined the official line on the hawk deal, but it did not address the funding diversion.

Christie was clearly what non-Southern high-end Republicans wanted--a hawk who kept his eye on the bond market.

Come, man, you must be as hungry as a hawk—a slice of the beef?

Monk said to hawk, 'You're the great Coleman hawkins, right?

But the hawk system, the official noted, is much more difficult to operate than the Russian Buk system.

It was the same when he challenged the hawk down out of the sky.

Then if they do not sell I will hawk them from door to door.

Later, when he had grown more formidable, he wanted to eat the hawk.

A hawk, driving down out of the blue, had barely missed him.

At the same time, maybe she should hawk it up a little, especially if Rand Paul is the nominee.