Definitions for sparrow-hawk

sparrow-hawk sparrow hawk

Sparrow-Hawk is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 344 anagrams from letters in sparrow-hawk (-aahkoprrsww).

Definitions for sparrow-hawk

noun

  1. a small, short-winged European hawk, Accipiter nisus, that preys on smaller birds.
  2. American kestrel.

Origin of sparrow-hawk

late Middle English word dating back to 1400-50

Examples for sparrow-hawk

Is it possible the sparrow hawk does so much credit to my understanding?

The sparrow hawk has been wrongly named, for it eats a thousand times as many grasshoppers as it does sparrows.

The sparrow hawk feeds on mice, ground squirrels, insects, small birds.

I catch Sparrows, and other small birds, so they call me the sparrow hawk, too.

He is a good deal like Killy the sparrow hawk in this respect.

He told me that twice he had seen a lark escape from a sparrow hawk.

Notwithstanding claims to the contrary, all hawks, with the exception of the sparrow hawk, are injurious.

Far above us a sparrow hawk circled above the trees, and we were told that an owl had a nest somewhere among the rocks.

The sparrow hawk is one of our commonest and most familiar Hawks.

He will imitate the red-shouldered hawk and the sparrow hawk and I suspect him of mixing it in conversation with the flicker.

Word Value for sparrow-hawk
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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