Definition of Hawkbell

1. a small bell attached to a hawk's leg [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawkbell

hawfinch
hawfinches
hawing
hawk
hawk's-beard
hawk's-beards
hawk-beaked
hawk-billed
hawk-eyed
hawk-nose
hawk moth
hawk moths
hawk nose
hawk noses
hawk owl
hawkbell (current term)
hawkbells
hawkbill
hawkbills
hawkbit
hawkbits
hawked
hawker
hawkers
hawkey
hawkeyed
hawkeyes
hawkeys
hawkfish
hawkfishes

Literary usage of Hawkbell

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Southwestern Historical Quarterly by Texas State Historical Association, Eugene Campbell Barker, Herbert Eugene Bolton, University of Texas at Austin Center for Studies in Texas History (1901)
"called fifty leagues to where they received the copper hawkbell, and another day's march over a mountain whose stones were sconce of iron to the houses on ..."

2. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"... árboles empleados par» curtir, tanner's oak bark. wat/era de —. tan wood. Cascabel (arm.) ball at the butt end, button, hawkbell. ..."

3. Ballads and Lays from Scottish History by Norval Clyne (1844)
"He listened, and the hawkbell's chime The breeze was sweetly bringing, And shouts and laughter musical Were through the greenwood ringing. ..."

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