heronshawn.

Brit.

/ˈhɛrənʃɔː/, U.S.

/ˈhɛrənˌʃɔ/

Forms:

α. Middle English heironsew, Middle English heirounnsew, Middle English heronseu, Middle English herounseu, Middle English herounsew, Middle English herounsewe, Middle English herunsew, Middle English heyrounsew, Middle English heyrounsewe, Middle English–1600s (1900s– historical) heronsewe, Middle English– heronsew, 1500s hayransu, 1500s hearonsew, 1500s herensew, 1700s–1800s heronsue; English regional (chiefly northern) 1700s herrensue, 1700s 1900s herrinsew, 1700s–1800s herrinsue, 1700s– heronseugh, 1700s– herringsue, 1800s hearingsew, 1800s herringsew, 1800s– heerinseugh, 1800s– heerinsew, 1800s– herensew, 1800s– heronsue, 1800s– heronsyueff, 1800s– herrinseu, 1900s– heronsoo; N.E.D. (1898) also records a form late Middle English herynsew.

β. late Middle English–1600s hernesew, 1500s harnew (perhaps transmission error), 1500s hearnsew, 1500s hernsewe, 1500s–1600s hernesewe, 1500s–1700s hernsew, 1600s hernseu, 1600s her'nsew, 1900s– hernseugh (Scottish); English regional (chiefly East Anglian) 1700s hernsue, 1700s– harnsa, 1800s hahnsey, 1800s hernser, 1800s hernseugh, 1800s– hanser, 1800s– harnsee, 1800s– harnser, 1800s– harnsey, 1800s– hernsew, 1800s– hernsey, 1800s– hornsey, 1900s– anser, 1900s– hahnser, 1900s– hancer, 1900s– hansa, 1900s– hansey; N.E.D. (1898) also records a form late Middle English hernsew.

γ. Scottish pre-1700 heronis sewis (plural).

δ. 1500s hearneshaw, 1500s hearneshawe, 1500s hernshawe, 1500s 1800s– hearnshaw (English regional (Kent)), 1500s–1600s herneshaw, 1500s–1600s herneshawe, 1500s– hernshaw, 1600s her'nshaw, 1600s hirnshaw, 1600s hirnshawe; Scottish 1800s– hernshaw.

ε. 1500s hearnsheaw, 1500s hearnshew, 1500s hernshoe, 1500s–1600s hearneshoe, 1500s–1600s herneshewe, 1500s–1600s 1800s hernshew, 1600s herneshew; English regional 1800s hearnshrow (Kent), 1900s– hernshow (Nottinghamshire); N.E.D. (1898) also records forms late Middle English herneshewe, late Middle English hernshew.

ζ. 1500s hearonshew, 1500s herenshewe, 1500s heronshewe, 1500s–1700s (2000s– historical) heronshew, 1600s heronshoe, 1600s heronshowe; English regional (chiefly northern) 1800s– herinshrew, 1800s– heronsheugh, 1800s– heronshuf, 1800s– herrinsho, 1900s– heronshrew; Scottish 1800s heronsheugh, 1800s heronshew, 1800s herrin'-shouw.

η. 1500s– heronshaw, 1600s heronshawe, 1800s herringshaw (English regional (Lincolnshire)).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French herouncel.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman herouncel, herencell, heronsew young heron (c1334, in plural form heronceux , or earlier; compare Middle French (Champagne) heronçaul (1330), heronceau (1530 in Palsgrave)) < heron , heroun heron n. + -cel , diminutive suffix (see -ellus suffix). Sense 2 results from Cotgrave's mistaken identification of the second element of the η. forms and δ. forms with shaw n.¹ (see quot. 1611 at sense 2). Later quots. for this sense apparently arise from occurrences in dictionaries (ultimately in Cotgrave), rather than reflecting genuine currency.The γ. forms show remodelling after the genitive of heron n., as if the word were a genitive compound. The δ. , ε. , ζ. , and η. forms reflect various attempts to represent the vowel in the final syllable after assibilation had taken place, although the forms in -shaw are difficult to account for; according to H. Kökeritz ‘Five Shakespeare Notes’, in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1947) 23 311–20, forms in -shaw show a regular phonological development (with monophthongization of an original French triphthong) also seen in other late Middle English loanwords from French words with -eau- (compare bawcock n.), although it should be noted that the form heronceau is only attested rather late in French. Forms in herring- probably show folk-etymological alteration after herring n., arising from the fact that herons eat fish.

Now chiefly historical or British regional.

1. Originally: a young or small heron. Later more generally: any heron.Cf. cryal-heronshaw: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

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α.

1381–2 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 592 (MED) Uni portanti Heronsewes, 12 d.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 60 I wol nat tellen..of hir Swannes ne of hir heronsewes [c1430 Cambr. Gg. 4.27 heirounnsewis].

1409 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 53 In 3 herounseus emp., 15 d.

1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xv. sig. H.ii^v A yonge herensew is lyghter of dygestyon than a crane.

?1625 F. Godwin Succession of Bishops of Eng. 614/2 First Course. Brawne... Capons in halfe grease. Heronsewes.

1767 T. Bridges Homer Travestie (ed. 2) II. xii. 221 When to their view Appear'd a long-legg'd heron-sue.

1785 W. Hutton Bran New Wark 30 Nivver did hullet, herrensue, or miredrum, mak sic a noise before.

1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. (ed. 2) II. 325 Herrinsew, ardea cinerea, the heron.

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 82 ‘As thin as a herring-sue’, a tall lanky person.

1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh II. 111 We got..two butterbumps and a heronsew.

1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. iv. 123 Ginger sauce went with partridge and pheasant; camelyn was recommended for heronsewe.

2001 C. Woolgar in M. A. Hicks Revol. & Consumption in Late Medieval Eng. 7 The bitterns, heronsews, curlews and egrets..formed the provision for the feast.

β. ?c1425 Recipe in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Arun. 334) (1790) 450 Pygge rosted..and hernesewes.1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 88 The heron or hearnsew is called Ardea for mounting aloft.1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi viii. §2. 399 The Heron or Hernsew is a fowl that liveth about waters.1789 'Norfolk Lady' MS Coll. Norfolk Words in Dictionaries (2016) 37 129 Harnsa, a Heron.a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Harnsey, a heron.1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 144 Harnser (Suffolk)..Hernsew, Heronseugh (Yorkshire).1907 A. Hilliers Fanshawe of Fifth ii. 13 The things fleeted across the brown heath, shewing much white in the wing. ‘Harnsers,’ grunted the fat man from the depths of his comforter.1920 C. M. Doughty Mansoul 142 Only late hernsew, flagging her wide wings; O'erflies lo!2012 Evening News (Norwich) (Nexis) 1 June Have you ever seen a harnser sitting by the water?γ. 1493 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) A1493/5/20 It is statute..that quhair ony heronis biggis..nestis..na maner of persoun..slay ony of the said heronis sewis, or destroy thair nestis, eggis, or birdis.δ. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 187 Heronceav, an hernshawe.1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 91 a A Hearneshaw (a whole afternoone together) sate on the top of S. Peters Church in Cornehill.1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. vii. sig. Ee4^v As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight At an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 146 The Ilands..the English call Silly..all abound with Conies, Cranes, Swannes, Hirnshawes, and other Sea birdes.1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iv. xxiii. 618 Bishops, like Hernshaws, abounded in the wing and feather of Ceremony.a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 147 The only time I ever saw a hernshaw (‘herrin'-shouw’ the Annandalers call it) actually fishing.1903 W. A. Dutt Norfolk Broads (1906) i. v. 84 The men..whom the abbots of St. Benet-at-Holm and Langley, when they entertained courtly guests with falconry, summoned to guide those guests to the haunts of the hernshaws.2007 V. Houliston Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan Eng. iv. 83 Thomas Moffet..comments on a treacle made from the flesh of a hernshaw fed entirely with adders.ε. 1544 Proclam. Henry VIII lymyttyng Pryces Vitailes 21 May p. i Herneshewes shouelars and byttours of the beste, not aboue the price of .xviii.d. the pece.?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 11 Wyre Cagez,..in them, liue Bitters, Curleuz, Shoouelarz, Hearnsheawz,..and such lyke deinty Byrds.1579 E. Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde newly Renued iv. sig. D2 ^v Both Capon, Swan, and Hernshoe good.1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. v. 115 Vpon whose tops the Herneshew bred her young.1880 J. Morris New Nation II. 144 Erodios, Erodiou, the hernshew or heron.ζ. 1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. D.iiii^v The Hearonshew mountes aboue the Clouds y^e Crowes ech wher do cry All this showes rayn.1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 64 The young Heronshowes are with some accounted a very dainty dish.1635 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman (ed. 2) i. i. iii. 12 If Hernes or Heronshoes cry much in their flying.1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel vi. vi. 166 Capon, heron-shew, and crane.1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Heronsheugh, heronseugh, heronshuf, heronsyueff, heerinseugh, herny, a heron.2007 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 6 May a6 Survivor [of the 1609 shipwreck] William Strachey listed numerous birds in his long letter home, including sparrows, robins, gray heronshews..and swans.η. 1583 G. Peckham True Rep. Newfound Landes v. sig. E.iv Great store of game, both for Land and Riuer, as Feazaunts, Partridges, Cranes, Heronshawes, Duckes Mallardes, and such like.1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xi. 93 All the Heronshaws, (namely, the black, white, criel-Heronshaw, and the mire-dromble).1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 277 The common Heron or Heronshaw.1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 116 Common heron, or heronshaw.1843 H. W. Herbert Marmaduke Wyvil ix. 43 After you have searched to-morrow, if you will ride out with her and see Gilbert Falconer's long-winged Norroway hawks fly at a heronshaw, you'll please the girl.1891 Christian Union 23 Apr. 536/3 We startled up, during the drive, no less than four stately heronshaws, standing tall and slender by the canals.1937 Poetry Aug. 269 The vulture, the falcon And the clumsy albatross, The ibis and the crow, The heronshaw And the furry owl.2002 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 27 Jan. 45 Heronshaws..were still being eaten well into the 19th century.

†2. = heronry n. Obsolete (chiefly historical in later use).In early use only in dictionaries.

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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Haironniere, a herons neast, or ayrie; a herneshaw, or shaw of wood, wherein herons breed.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Heronry, Heronshaw, a place where herons breed.

1822 J. Fleming Philos. Zool. II. i. ii. 86 The bird congregates, during the breeding season, in a few places in Britain, termed Heronries or Heronshaws.

1854 True Briton 20 Apr. 600/1 There are no less than thirty heronries, or heron-shaws, as they were anciently called, still extant in different parts of this kingdom.

1881 Mag. of Art 4 420/2 Such a heronry was often known as a heronshaw or hernshaw.

Phrases

to know a hawk from a hernshaw and variants: to have good sense or discernment. Now archaic or historical. [A conjectural emendation of the phrase to know a hawk from a handsaw in Shakespeare's Hamlet (see quot. 1604 at handsaw n. Phrases), proposed by Thomas Hanmer (see quot. 1744). N.E.D. (1898) suggests that Hanmer, ‘being a Suffolk man, founded this on the East Anglian dialectal harnsey , harnsa , harnser ’ (compare the β. forms, and also the δ. forms). See further discussion at handsaw n. Phrases.]

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1744 Shakespeare's Hamlet ii. vi, in T. Hanmer Wks. Shakespear VI. 361 When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a hernshaw.

1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 116 Not to know the Hawk from the Heronshaw was an old proverb, taken originally from this diversion [sc. heron-hawking]; but in course of time served to express great ignorance in any science.

1838 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) IV. 315 What claim I have to your attention as one that knows a hawk from a herring-sue, it is for yourselves to settle.

1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. v. 561 The clever Elliot, who knew a hawk from a hernshaw, never floundered into that platitude.

1916 D. G. Dery Under Big Dipper xvii. 225 But if she is all you describe her to be, she knows a hawk from a hernshaw.

1978 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 98 172 Even urbanized twentieth century scholars who study medieval poetry need to be able to tell a hawk from a hernshaw.

1999 Irish Times (Nexis) 15 May 26 The man who couldn't tell a hawk from a hanser or a heronshaw was unable to distinguish between a hawk and its prey.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	heronshaw
释义	heronshawn. Brit. /ˈhɛrənʃɔː/, U.S. /ˈhɛrənˌʃɔ/ Forms: α. Middle English heironsew, Middle English heirounnsew, Middle English heronseu, Middle English herounseu, Middle English herounsew, Middle English herounsewe, Middle English herunsew, Middle English heyrounsew, Middle English heyrounsewe, Middle English–1600s (1900s– historical) heronsewe, Middle English– heronsew, 1500s hayransu, 1500s hearonsew, 1500s herensew, 1700s–1800s heronsue; English regional (chiefly northern) 1700s herrensue, 1700s 1900s herrinsew, 1700s–1800s herrinsue, 1700s– heronseugh, 1700s– herringsue, 1800s hearingsew, 1800s herringsew, 1800s– heerinseugh, 1800s– heerinsew, 1800s– herensew, 1800s– heronsue, 1800s– heronsyueff, 1800s– herrinseu, 1900s– heronsoo; N.E.D. (1898) also records a form late Middle English herynsew. β. late Middle English–1600s hernesew, 1500s harnew (perhaps transmission error), 1500s hearnsew, 1500s hernsewe, 1500s–1600s hernesewe, 1500s–1700s hernsew, 1600s hernseu, 1600s her'nsew, 1900s– hernseugh (Scottish); English regional (chiefly East Anglian) 1700s hernsue, 1700s– harnsa, 1800s hahnsey, 1800s hernser, 1800s hernseugh, 1800s– hanser, 1800s– harnsee, 1800s– harnser, 1800s– harnsey, 1800s– hernsew, 1800s– hernsey, 1800s– hornsey, 1900s– anser, 1900s– hahnser, 1900s– hancer, 1900s– hansa, 1900s– hansey; N.E.D. (1898) also records a form late Middle English hernsew. γ. Scottish pre-1700 heronis sewis (plural). δ. 1500s hearneshaw, 1500s hearneshawe, 1500s hernshawe, 1500s 1800s– hearnshaw (English regional (Kent)), 1500s–1600s herneshaw, 1500s–1600s herneshawe, 1500s– hernshaw, 1600s her'nshaw, 1600s hirnshaw, 1600s hirnshawe; Scottish 1800s– hernshaw. ε. 1500s hearnsheaw, 1500s hearnshew, 1500s hernshoe, 1500s–1600s hearneshoe, 1500s–1600s herneshewe, 1500s–1600s 1800s hernshew, 1600s herneshew; English regional 1800s hearnshrow (Kent), 1900s– hernshow (Nottinghamshire); N.E.D. (1898) also records forms late Middle English herneshewe, late Middle English hernshew. ζ. 1500s hearonshew, 1500s herenshewe, 1500s heronshewe, 1500s–1700s (2000s– historical) heronshew, 1600s heronshoe, 1600s heronshowe; English regional (chiefly northern) 1800s– herinshrew, 1800s– heronsheugh, 1800s– heronshuf, 1800s– herrinsho, 1900s– heronshrew; Scottish 1800s heronsheugh, 1800s heronshew, 1800s herrin'-shouw. η. 1500s– heronshaw, 1600s heronshawe, 1800s herringshaw (English regional (Lincolnshire)). Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French herouncel. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman herouncel, herencell, heronsew young heron (c1334, in plural form heronceux , or earlier; compare Middle French (Champagne) heronçaul (1330), heronceau (1530 in Palsgrave)) < heron , heroun heron n. + -cel , diminutive suffix (see -ellus suffix). Sense 2 results from Cotgrave's mistaken identification of the second element of the η. forms and δ. forms with shaw n.¹ (see quot. 1611 at sense 2). Later quots. for this sense apparently arise from occurrences in dictionaries (ultimately in Cotgrave), rather than reflecting genuine currency.The γ. forms show remodelling after the genitive of heron n., as if the word were a genitive compound. The δ. , ε. , ζ. , and η. forms reflect various attempts to represent the vowel in the final syllable after assibilation had taken place, although the forms in -shaw are difficult to account for; according to H. Kökeritz ‘Five Shakespeare Notes’, in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1947) 23 311–20, forms in -shaw show a regular phonological development (with monophthongization of an original French triphthong) also seen in other late Middle English loanwords from French words with -eau- (compare bawcock n.), although it should be noted that the form heronceau is only attested rather late in French. Forms in herring- probably show folk-etymological alteration after herring n., arising from the fact that herons eat fish. Now chiefly historical or British regional. 1. Originally: a young or small heron. Later more generally: any heron.Cf. cryal-heronshaw: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > genus Ardea (heron) shiterowc1200 heron1340 heronshaw1381 herle?1507 frank1823 frog-pecker1825 moll-heron1848 α. 1381–2 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 592 (MED) Uni portanti Heronsewes, 12 d. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 60 I wol nat tellen..of hir Swannes ne of hir heronsewes [c1430 Cambr. Gg. 4.27 heirounnsewis]. 1409 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 53 In 3 herounseus emp., 15 d. 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xv. sig. H.ii^v A yonge herensew is lyghter of dygestyon than a crane. ?1625 F. Godwin Succession of Bishops of Eng. 614/2 First Course. Brawne... Capons in halfe grease. Heronsewes. 1767 T. Bridges Homer Travestie (ed. 2) II. xii. 221 When to their view Appear'd a long-legg'd heron-sue. 1785 W. Hutton Bran New Wark 30 Nivver did hullet, herrensue, or miredrum, mak sic a noise before. 1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. (ed. 2) II. 325 Herrinsew, ardea cinerea, the heron. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 82 ‘As thin as a herring-sue’, a tall lanky person. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh II. 111 We got..two butterbumps and a heronsew. 1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. iv. 123 Ginger sauce went with partridge and pheasant; camelyn was recommended for heronsewe. 2001 C. Woolgar in M. A. Hicks Revol. & Consumption in Late Medieval Eng. 7 The bitterns, heronsews, curlews and egrets..formed the provision for the feast. β. ?c1425 Recipe in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Arun. 334) (1790) 450 Pygge rosted..and hernesewes.1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 88 The heron or hearnsew is called Ardea for mounting aloft.1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi viii. §2. 399 The Heron or Hernsew is a fowl that liveth about waters.1789 'Norfolk Lady' MS Coll. Norfolk Words in Dictionaries (2016) 37 129 Harnsa, a Heron.a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Harnsey, a heron.1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 144 Harnser (Suffolk)..Hernsew, Heronseugh (Yorkshire).1907 A. Hilliers Fanshawe of Fifth ii. 13 The things fleeted across the brown heath, shewing much white in the wing. ‘Harnsers,’ grunted the fat man from the depths of his comforter.1920 C. M. Doughty Mansoul 142 Only late hernsew, flagging her wide wings; O'erflies lo!2012 Evening News (Norwich) (Nexis) 1 June Have you ever seen a harnser sitting by the water?γ. 1493 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) A1493/5/20 It is statute..that quhair ony heronis biggis..nestis..na maner of persoun..slay ony of the said heronis sewis, or destroy thair nestis, eggis, or birdis.δ. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 187 Heronceav, an hernshawe.1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 91 a A Hearneshaw (a whole afternoone together) sate on the top of S. Peters Church in Cornehill.1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. vii. sig. Ee4^v As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight At an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing. View more context for this quotation1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 146 The Ilands..the English call Silly..all abound with Conies, Cranes, Swannes, Hirnshawes, and other Sea birdes.1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iv. xxiii. 618 Bishops, like Hernshaws, abounded in the wing and feather of Ceremony.a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 147 The only time I ever saw a hernshaw (‘herrin'-shouw’ the Annandalers call it) actually fishing.1903 W. A. Dutt Norfolk Broads (1906) i. v. 84 The men..whom the abbots of St. Benet-at-Holm and Langley, when they entertained courtly guests with falconry, summoned to guide those guests to the haunts of the hernshaws.2007 V. Houliston Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan Eng. iv. 83 Thomas Moffet..comments on a treacle made from the flesh of a hernshaw fed entirely with adders.ε. 1544 Proclam. Henry VIII lymyttyng Pryces Vitailes 21 May p. i Herneshewes shouelars and byttours of the beste, not aboue the price of .xviii.d. the pece.?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 11 Wyre Cagez,..in them, liue Bitters, Curleuz, Shoouelarz, Hearnsheawz,..and such lyke deinty Byrds.1579 E. Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde newly Renued iv. sig. D2 ^v Both Capon, Swan, and Hernshoe good.1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. v. 115 Vpon whose tops the Herneshew bred her young.1880 J. Morris New Nation II. 144 Erodios, Erodiou, the hernshew or heron.ζ. 1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. D.iiii^v The Hearonshew mountes aboue the Clouds y^e Crowes ech wher do cry All this showes rayn.1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 64 The young Heronshowes are with some accounted a very dainty dish.1635 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman (ed. 2) i. i. iii. 12 If Hernes or Heronshoes cry much in their flying.1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel vi. vi. 166 Capon, heron-shew, and crane.1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Heronsheugh, heronseugh, heronshuf, heronsyueff, heerinseugh, herny, a heron.2007 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 6 May a6 Survivor [of the 1609 shipwreck] William Strachey listed numerous birds in his long letter home, including sparrows, robins, gray heronshews..and swans.η. 1583 G. Peckham True Rep. Newfound Landes v. sig. E.iv Great store of game, both for Land and Riuer, as Feazaunts, Partridges, Cranes, Heronshawes, Duckes Mallardes, and such like.1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xi. 93 All the Heronshaws, (namely, the black, white, criel-Heronshaw, and the mire-dromble).1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 277 The common Heron or Heronshaw.1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 116 Common heron, or heronshaw.1843 H. W. Herbert Marmaduke Wyvil ix. 43 After you have searched to-morrow, if you will ride out with her and see Gilbert Falconer's long-winged Norroway hawks fly at a heronshaw, you'll please the girl.1891 Christian Union 23 Apr. 536/3 We startled up, during the drive, no less than four stately heronshaws, standing tall and slender by the canals.1937 Poetry Aug. 269 The vulture, the falcon And the clumsy albatross, The ibis and the crow, The heronshaw And the furry owl.2002 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 27 Jan. 45 Heronshaws..were still being eaten well into the 19th century. †2. = heronry n. Obsolete (chiefly historical in later use).In early use only in dictionaries. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > genus Ardea (heron) > place for siegec1452 heronry1600 heronshaw1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Haironniere, a herons neast, or ayrie; a herneshaw, or shaw of wood, wherein herons breed. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Heronry, Heronshaw, a place where herons breed. 1822 J. Fleming Philos. Zool. II. i. ii. 86 The bird congregates, during the breeding season, in a few places in Britain, termed Heronries or Heronshaws. 1854 True Briton 20 Apr. 600/1 There are no less than thirty heronries, or heron-shaws, as they were anciently called, still extant in different parts of this kingdom. 1881 Mag. of Art 4 420/2 Such a heronry was often known as a heronshaw or hernshaw. Phrases to know a hawk from a hernshaw and variants: to have good sense or discernment. Now archaic or historical. [A conjectural emendation of the phrase to know a hawk from a handsaw in Shakespeare's Hamlet (see quot. 1604 at handsaw n. Phrases), proposed by Thomas Hanmer (see quot. 1744). N.E.D. (1898) suggests that Hanmer, ‘being a Suffolk man, founded this on the East Anglian dialectal harnsey , harnsa , harnser ’ (compare the β. forms, and also the δ. forms). See further discussion at handsaw n. Phrases.] ΚΠ 1744 Shakespeare's Hamlet ii. vi, in T. Hanmer Wks. Shakespear VI. 361 When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a hernshaw. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 116 Not to know the Hawk from the Heronshaw was an old proverb, taken originally from this diversion [sc. heron-hawking]; but in course of time served to express great ignorance in any science. 1838 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) IV. 315 What claim I have to your attention as one that knows a hawk from a herring-sue, it is for yourselves to settle. 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. v. 561 The clever Elliot, who knew a hawk from a hernshaw, never floundered into that platitude. 1916 D. G. Dery Under Big Dipper xvii. 225 But if she is all you describe her to be, she knows a hawk from a hernshaw. 1978 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 98 172 Even urbanized twentieth century scholars who study medieval poetry need to be able to tell a hawk from a hernshaw. 1999 Irish Times (Nexis) 15 May 26 The man who couldn't tell a hawk from a hanser or a heronshaw was unable to distinguish between a hawk and its prey. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1381
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