pigeon hawk


noun

Origin of pigeon hawk

1
An Americanism dating back to 1720–30

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How to use pigeon hawk in a sentence

  • While we are still advancing, a pigeon hawk darts over our heads, going straight for the oasis.

  • It was a pigeon hawk, and these little marauders are very saucy.

    Riverby | John Burroughs
  • The pigeon hawk went forth, confident that she should be successful.

    The Curious Book of Birds | Abbie Farwell Brown
  • Two near relatives, inhabiting both the old and the new worlds, are the pigeon-hawk and sparrow-hawk.

  • The habits of this species, which seems to have quite a limited range, are precisely like those of the pigeon hawk.

    Bird Guide | Chester A. Reed

British Dictionary definitions for pigeon hawk

pigeon hawk

noun
  1. the North American variety of the merlin

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