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Definition of Hawkshaws
1. hawkshaw [n] - See also: hawkshaw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawkshaws
Literary usage of Hawkshaws
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1907)
"... Institution of Civil Engineers of London, where, when once inside the walls,
all members are "Civil Engineers"-—whether they be hawkshaws, or Whites, ..."
2. The Nineteenth Century (1885)
"The civil engineers of the corps—such men as the hawkshaws, Sir John Coode, John
Fowler, and Sir C. Gregory—belong to it in the patriotic hope that, ..."
3. The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls by George Jean Nathan (1921)
"... and Laura Murdocks that are real, but trees of shaky canvas and wiggling moons
and false- whiskered hawkshaws and theatrical Lady Gay Spankers. ..."
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