Hawk
Hawk is a common name for some birds of prey, widely distributed and varying greatly in size.
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Hawk - Metaphorical Use
... A war hawk, or simply hawk for short, is a term used in politics for someone favoring war in a debate over whether to go to war ... War hawks are the opposite of war doves ... The terms are derived through analogy with the birds of the same name hawks are predators which attack and feed on other animals, whereas doves mostly eat seeds and fruit, and are historically a symbol ...
... A war hawk, or simply hawk for short, is a term used in politics for someone favoring war in a debate over whether to go to war ... War hawks are the opposite of war doves ... The terms are derived through analogy with the birds of the same name hawks are predators which attack and feed on other animals, whereas doves mostly eat seeds and fruit, and are historically a symbol ...
Black Hawk (nightclub) - History
... The Black Hawk's intimate atmosphere was ideal for small jazz groups ... across town at the Say When Club, he could be found instead jamming at the Hawk ... did concert work in the last 18 months of his life he played the Black Hawk in 1955 ...
... The Black Hawk's intimate atmosphere was ideal for small jazz groups ... across town at the Say When Club, he could be found instead jamming at the Hawk ... did concert work in the last 18 months of his life he played the Black Hawk in 1955 ...
Hawk Of May
... Hawk of May is the first installment in Gillian Bradshaw’s Down The Long Wind trilogy ... Published initially in 1980 by Simon and Schuster, Hawk of May centers around Gwalchmai ap Lot and his adventures during the time of Arthur ...
... Hawk of May is the first installment in Gillian Bradshaw’s Down The Long Wind trilogy ... Published initially in 1980 by Simon and Schuster, Hawk of May centers around Gwalchmai ap Lot and his adventures during the time of Arthur ...
Studebaker Power Hawk
... The Studebaker Power Hawk was a two-door pillared coupe manufactured by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation for the 1956 model year only ... The Power Hawk was technically part of the Studebaker Commander series, and featured the Commander's 259 cubic inch (4.2 L) V-8, which generated 170 ... The Power Hawk was positioned between the base Flight Hawk pillared coupe and the Sky Hawk pillarless hardtop coupe ...
... The Studebaker Power Hawk was a two-door pillared coupe manufactured by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation for the 1956 model year only ... The Power Hawk was technically part of the Studebaker Commander series, and featured the Commander's 259 cubic inch (4.2 L) V-8, which generated 170 ... The Power Hawk was positioned between the base Flight Hawk pillared coupe and the Sky Hawk pillarless hardtop coupe ...
Starhawk (comics) - Fictional Character Biography - Freed From Rebirth
... Aleta had harsh words for each other, and the Hawk God appeared and intervened, attaching the two ex-lovers by bonding their fingers together ... After being forced to work together for a time, the Hawk God again granted them audience, allowing them to plead their cases ... Although Aleta chose to stay with the Guardians, the Hawk God told Stakar the truth about his heritage ...
... Aleta had harsh words for each other, and the Hawk God appeared and intervened, attaching the two ex-lovers by bonding their fingers together ... After being forced to work together for a time, the Hawk God again granted them audience, allowing them to plead their cases ... Although Aleta chose to stay with the Guardians, the Hawk God told Stakar the truth about his heritage ...
More definitions of "hawk":
- (verb): Clear mucus or food from one's throat.
Synonyms: clear the throat
- (noun): A square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar.
Synonyms: mortarboard
- (noun): Diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail.
- (noun): An advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations.
Synonyms: war hawk
Famous quotes containing the word hawk:
“The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“He will not go,
But wait through fish scale, shale dust, bone
of hawk and marmot,
caught leaves in ice,
Til flung on a new net of atoms:”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
“Time is bearing another son.
Kill Time! She turns in her pain!
The oak is felled in the acorn
And the hawk in the egg kills the wren.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
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