| 单词 | red hawk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred hawk red hawk n. †(a) a yearling peregrine, Falco peregrinus (obsolete); (b) British regional the kestrel, F. tinnunculus; (c) British regional the merlin, F. columbarius.Cf. red falcon n., red tiercel n. ΚΠ c1398 in C. Innes Origines Parochiales Scotl. (1854) II. i. 808 [The yearly payment of a] reid haulk. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 225 I do lyke ane rid halk schout. 1770 Ess. Game Laws 9 A red Hawk intended to be trained to Game, ought to be entered to Moor Game long before the 25th of July. 1828 J. S. Sebright Observ. Hawking (new ed.) 32 The young hawks of the year are called red hawks, from the colour of their plumage. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 140 Kestrel... Names given from the red tint of its plumage. Red hawk (Stirling). 1890 J. Watson Nature & Woodcraft 13 The great grouse poachers of the Moors are the beautiful little Merlins... The ‘red hawk’ is plucky beyond its size and strength, and will pull down a partridge. 1903 J. A. Walpole-Bond Bird-life Wild Wales 12 The ‘Red Hawk’, as the Welsh call him is the Kestrel. < as lemmas |
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