hack board

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of hack board¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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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He flapped and he flew, too, but only as far as a tree limb— not to the hack board.

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Screamer, on the hack board, saw the shadow above him and instinctively crouched.

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