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  hawking

  noun

  the sport of hunting with hawks or other birds of prey; falconry.
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  Hawking

  noun

  Stephen William, 1942–2018, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.

hawking

¹ American  

[haw-king] / ˈhɔ kɪŋ /

noun

1. the sport of hunting with hawks or other birds of prey; falconry.

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Hawking ² American  

[haw-king] / ˈhɔ kɪŋ /

noun

1. Stephen William, 1942–2018, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.

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Hawking ¹ British  

/ ˈhɔːkɪŋ /

noun

1. Stephen William. Born 1942, British physicist. Stricken with a progressive nervous disease since the 1960s, he has nevertheless been a leader in cosmological theory. His publications intended for a wide audience include A Brief History of Time (1987) and The Grand Design (2010)

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hawking ² British  

/ ˈhɔːkɪŋ /

noun

1. another name for falconry

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Hawking Scientific  

/ hô′kĭng /

1. British physicist noted for his study of black holes and the origin of the universe, especially the big bang theory. His work has provided much of the mathematical basis for scientific explanations of the physical properties of black holes.

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Etymology

Origin of hawking

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at hawk ¹, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

And they raised enormous piles of cash—sometimes in the hundreds of millions of dollars—in a way that made them seem more like tech startups than companies hawking retail consumer goods.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

Kristi Noem was shown selling handheld vacuums on a home shopping network while Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth were hawking products on their own podcast.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

But he was managing to put a noticeable distance between himself and the news No 10 had been hawking their former director of communications Lord Doyle for a job as an ambassador.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

In 1938, Pennington pitched a tent outside the hiring hall for workers building the Shasta Dam, set up some tree stumps for seats and started hawking grub.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

He began spluttering and choking and spewing and hawking and acting generally like a man with some serious internal injury.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl

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