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Definition of Goshawks
1. goshawk [n] - See also: goshawk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goshawks
Literary usage of Goshawks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries: With an Appendix, Containing by Joseph Chitty (1812)
"Wherefore the said Gilbert gave the said goshawks to the defendant; and therefore
we pray judgment, &c. ..."
2. Coursing and Falconry by Harding Edward de Fonglanque Cox, Gerald William Lascelles, Charles Richardson (1899)
"CHAPTER V THE SHORT-WINGED HAWKS—goshawks—HOW OBTAINED— TRAINING ENTERING RABBIT
... Passage goshawks, which are in every respect infinitely the best, ..."
3. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"... Buzzards, Hawks, goshawks, Eagles, etc. Genus CIRCUS Lacepede. 331. Circus
hudsonius (Linn.). Marsh Hawk; Harrier; Blue Hawk. ..."
4. Diseases and Enemies of Poultry by Leonard Pearson, Benjamin Harry Warren (1897)
"The two heads of goshawks (adult and young or immature), illustrate another
species of the ... goshawks ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The management of sparrow-hawks is much the same as that of goshawks, ...
goshawks should be fed like peregrines, but rats and rabbits are very good as ..."
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