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Definition of Hawkshaw

1. Noun. Someone who is a detective.

Definition of Hawkshaw

1. Noun. (dated 19th C) Detective. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hawkshaw

1. a detective [n -S] - See also: detective

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawkshaw

Literary usage of Hawkshaw

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

1. Representative British Dramas: Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"hawkshaw. Your messenger, eh? [As GIBSON is about to gire kin the cheque, hawkshaw. r. ... hawkshaw. It's within five minutes. You go to your room. ..."

2. Men of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries, Containing Biographical by Thompson Cooper (1884)
"In 1831 Mr. Nimmo died, and, at the early age of 20, Mr. hawkshaw was engaged ... Mr. hawkshaw was nominated one of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers ..."

3. The Revised Reports by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1895)
"hawkshaw. ISIT. (2 Starkie, 239—240.) On non est factum pleaded to a bond, it is not sufficient to prove the execution by a person who executed in the name ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"... and JW GREGORY, Sir AR BINNIE, and Mr. JC hawkshaw, appointed to consider a project for investigating a Coral Reef by Borin/j and Sounding. ..."

5. The Mysteries of the Court of London by George William MacArthur Reynolds (1863)
"said Mr. hawkshaw, shaking his head gloomily, as his thoughts at the ... ejaculated hawkshaw : " the epithet is the very best you could have applied to it. ..."

6. The Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill by Dorothy Nevill, Ralph Nevill (1906)
"CHAPTER VII My experiments in silkworm culture—Neighbours in the country —Lady Featherstonhaugh—Sir Charles Taylor—Mr. Cobden —Sir John hawkshaw—Lord ..."

7. The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the Earliest Times to the Year by Ibrahim-Hilmy (1888)
"... Lord Palmerston—Formation of the International Commission—Contract with the Viceroy—Formation of " La Compagnie Universelle "—Report of Mr. J. hawkshaw, ..."

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