Definitions for goshawk

goshawk gos·hawk

Spelling: [gos-hawk]
IPA: /ˈgɒsˌhɔk/

Goshawk is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in goshawk (aghkosw).

Definitions for goshawk

noun

  1. any of several powerful, short-winged hawks, as Accipiter gentilis, of Europe and America, formerly much used in falconry.

Origin of goshawk

before 1000; Middle English goshauk, Old English gōshafoc. See goose, hawk1

Examples for goshawk

In this ballad the goshawk is endowed with the nightingale's voice.

It was of larger size than the British bunting displayed by the goshawk.

A goshawk is a goose hawk, so called from its preying on poultry.

The goshawk (Astur palabarius) is the hawk most commonly used.

She had barely escaped paying dearly for her pursuit of the goshawk.

“I can get on board,” he said, as if his patient quadruped had been the goshawk.

The goshawk was Farina's bridesman, and a very spiriting bridesman was he!

He once offered the reversion in fee of an Irish leasehold for a goshawk.

Sometimes a peregrine is shot, and more rarely, in autumn, a hobby or a goshawk.

There were two things, however, about which nobody on board the goshawk was thinking.

Word Value for goshawk
Scrable

18

Words with friends

18

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