hawk's eyen.

Forms: Also hawk-eye.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhawk's eye.

1. The eye of a hawk; hence, a sharp or keen eye like a hawk's.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > types of sight organ > [noun]

ferret-eye1590

squirrel eyes1600

hawk's eye1684

piercer1752

gimlet-eye1825

lynx-eye1828

bug-eyes1905

camera eye1908

night eye1934

1684 T. Otway Atheist iv. 45 A Plague of her Hawks eyes!

1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour i. i. 2 I have a Hawks Eye at a Womans hand.

1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 119 Your hawk~eyes are keen and bright.

1884 Spurgeon in Sword & Trowel July 338 There are persons in the world who seem to have hawks' eyes where anything evil is concerned.

2. A name given to some species of plover, as the golden plover and the black-bellied plover.

ΚΠ

1813 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. VII. 42 It is said, that at Hudson's Bay it [the black-bellied plover] is called the Hawk's-eye on account of its brilliancy.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	hawks eye
释义	hawk's eyen. Forms: Also hawk-eye. Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhawk's eye. 1. The eye of a hawk; hence, a sharp or keen eye like a hawk's. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > types of sight organ > [noun] ferret-eye1590 squirrel eyes1600 hawk's eye1684 piercer1752 gimlet-eye1825 lynx-eye1828 bug-eyes1905 camera eye1908 night eye1934 1684 T. Otway Atheist iv. 45 A Plague of her Hawks eyes! 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour i. i. 2 I have a Hawks Eye at a Womans hand. 1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 119 Your hawk~eyes are keen and bright. 1884 Spurgeon in Sword & Trowel July 338 There are persons in the world who seem to have hawks' eyes where anything evil is concerned. 2. A name given to some species of plover, as the golden plover and the black-bellied plover. ΚΠ 1813 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. VII. 42 It is said, that at Hudson's Bay it [the black-bellied plover] is called the Hawk's-eye on account of its brilliancy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1684
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