sparhawkn.
/ˈspɑːhɔːk/ Now archaic or dialect.
A sparrowhawk.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > genus Accipiter > accipiter nisus (sparrowhawk)
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β. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. vi. 199 What pieres preyed hem to do as prest as a sperhauke.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 335 Þere is grete plente of..sperhaukes.c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 281 Yat he be lord of his subiectis as to the quaile the sperhauk.1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) vi. 152 The kyng gaaf to hym a sperhawke.1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. xxiv Except it be an entier rent, as a sperhauke, or a horse.1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 270 Haukes, as faulcons, gerfalcons, lanners, and sperhaukes.1602 L. Lloyd Briefe Conf. Divers Lawes 32 The feather of a sperhawke in their caps.γ. a1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxii. 238 Gerfacouns, Spare~haukes, Faukons gentyls.1486 Bk. St. Albans c viij b She may be also callid a spare hawke for .ij. Resones, oon is she sparith goshawkys and tercellys both.1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Aviijv Also we haue hawkes of the towre,..lyke wyse Goshawkes, and Sparehawkes for ladyes.1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxvi. 475 The Woolfe, the Foxe,..the Sparehauke, the Kyte, & so foorth.1612 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 201 Foure spare~haucke hoodes, xijd.1890 J. Watson Nature & Woodcraft viii The Gamekeeper..will record a black and bloody list of depredations against the ‘spare’-hawk.δ. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xii. iv Hereby it semeþ þtalietus and a litel sperehauke is all one.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 468/2 Sperehawke.., nisus.c1500 Melusine (1895) xxiv. 175 His enemyes fled byfore hym as the partrych doth byfore the sperehauke.c725 Corpus Gloss. A. 432 Alietum, spaerhabuc.
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 132 Accipiter, uel raptor, spearhafoc.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 1789 Þe sparhauk flough be þe sterling.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1192 What might or may the sely larke seie, Whanne that this sparhauk hath it in his foote?
1438 tr. Bk. Alexander Great (1831) 12 It semis thay sparhalkis war & we lawrokis that durst bot dar.
1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton h vj b It is sayd in a comyn prouerbe that crafte is better than the Sparhawke.
1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 28 The Sparhalk is als swyft of flicht As the Griffoun.
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. iv. 33 Gallio may..tend his Spar-hauke mantling in her mew.
1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat v. i. sig. I3v How her heart beats! Much like a Partridge in a Sparhawkes foot.
1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 13 Sparhawks (the most useless of Hawks..).
1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 820 The Ayries of Hawks, of Spar-Hawks.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Sir Launcelot & Queen Guinevere in Poems (new ed.) II. 207 Sometimes the sparhawk, wheel'd along.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. iv. 140 In the first [copse] there built an eagle, in the second there built a sparhawk.
1891 D. Jordan On Surrey Hills (1894) 44 Spar'hawk, the woodmen call him.
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spar-hawk n. the Sparrow-hawk.extracted from hawkn.1<
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