| 单词 | merlin hawk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmerlin hawk merlin hawk n. now rare = main sense. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Falconidae > genus Falco (falcon) > falco columbarius (merlin) merlina1382 esalon1572 merlin hawk1572 stone falcon1656 stone hawk1736 pigeon hawka1782 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) sig. Ee/2 Merlyn hawke, Melenetus. 1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. D3 There are also Parats, Faulcons, & Marlin haukes, which although with vs they bee not vsed for meate, yet for other causes I thought good to mention. 1772 D. Durell Crit. Remarks Bks. Job, Prov., Eccles., & Canticles (Job xxviii. 7) 82 Man in hunting after his Prey is more rapacious than the Eagle, more quicksighted than the Hawk, (..the Merlin hawk, Bochart) more ravenous than the Lion. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xii. 156 Noble dames..watching the flight of the merlin hawks. 1875 R. Isham tr. T. Isham Jrnl. 52 Clerk's son found a merlin hawk in its nest at a place called Haybrig. 1934 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 3 164 The sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus, feeds on a very wide range of hosts other than the sheep... These include the horse, cattle,..kestrel and merlin hawk. < as lemmas |
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