Definitions for goshawks

goshawks gos·hawk

Spelling: [gos-hawk]
IPA: /ˈgɒsˌhɔk/

Goshawks is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 156 anagrams from letters in goshawks (aghkossw).

Definitions for goshawks

noun

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

Origin of goshawks

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

Examples for goshawks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for goshawks
Scrable

18

Words with friends

18

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