hack board
Americannoun
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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