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hack board

American  

noun

  1. Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.


Etymology

Origin of hack board

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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Trainers put young unleashed birds who are just learning to fly and hunt on a hack board, a sort of artificial nest.

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Screamer shuttled between Bovina and Perry’s hack board for almost a week.

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He carried Screamer to the hack board, a food platform on stilts.

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Screamer saw the food on the hack board and flew to it.

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Remembering Perry’s food-laden hack board, he returned to it late in the morning, ate well, and departed.

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