Definition of Hawkbells

1. hawkbell [n] - See also: hawkbell

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawkbells

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
hawkbells (current term)
hawkbill
hawkbills
hawkbit
hawkbits
hawked
hawker
hawkers
hawkey
hawkeyed
hawkeyes
hawkeys
hawkfish
hawkfishes
hawkie

Literary usage of Hawkbells

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

1. The Growth of English Industry and Commerce by William Cunningham (1892)
"They wore their entire hoards as personal ornaments, and they parted with them readily for novel trinkets like hawkbells; but the tyrannies of the ..."

2. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1907)
"... hatchets, and hawkbells, and in return he received a present of gold, wrought and unwrought, with guides for the passes through the mountains. ..."

3. Notes Upon the Ethnography of Southern Mexico by Frederick Starr, Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences (1902)
"The other dancers wore the usual men's white shirts and drawers, but the latter had a red stripe down the side of the leg; jingling hawkbells were hung to ..."

4. The Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern Times by William Cunningham (1892)
"They wore their entire hoards as personal ornaments, and they parted with them readily for novel trinkets like hawkbells; but the tyrannies of the ..."

5. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Straits Branch (1884)
"Thicker than the stringed hawkbells of iron. " If so, untimely will be our advance like the ..."

6. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences by Davenport Academy of Sciences (1904)
"The other dancers wore the usual men's white shirts and drawers, but the latter had a red stripe down the side of the leg; jingling hawkbells were hung to ..."

7. Hayti; Or, The Black Republic / by Spenser St. John (1884)
"From time to time she approaches the serpent in order to add to her frenzy; she shakes the box, and the hawkbells attached to it sound like a fool's bauble, ..."

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