fish hawk

noun

fish hawk

An Americanism dating back to 1700–10

Only the eagles' nests upon the fierce dizzy pinnacles in the Yosemite surpass the home of the fish-hawk in unawed boldness.

As they sat there Jack saw, not far off and up the Arm, a fish-hawk dropping through the air to seize a fish.

The fish-hawk seemed to avoid these attacks easily, but perhaps they made it nervous, and presently it dropped its prey.

On the very tip-top of this, proudly above all possibility of capture, a fish-hawk's nest is built.

There swoops down a fish-hawk; and we see him bearing aloft a silvery fish, wriggling and twisting in his grasp.

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