goshawk
/gos-hawk/US // ˈgɒsˌhɔk //UK // (ˈɡɒsˌhɔːk) //
苍鹰,苍鹰号,大鹰,苍鹭
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : any of several powerful, short-winged hawks, as Accipiter gentilis, of Europe and America, formerly much used in falconry.
Examples
The goshawk blinked and peered more close into the tired face of his master.
Wide she opened her lattice window and, leaning out, she hearkened to the song of the gay goshawk.
A little nearer flew the gay goshawk, and first his song was merry as a summer morn, and then it was sad as an autumn eve.
And as a token of my love I send you by your gay goshawk a ring from off my finger, a wreath from off my yellow hair.
Have just seen a Goshawk, apparently in young plumage, flying west at a height of perhaps sixty or seventy yards from the ground.
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