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# hawk

«hawk» in Mova's school dictionary: **A bird of prey with sharp eyes, a hooked beak and strong…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hawk, hawks); verb (hawk, hawks, hawked, hawking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bird of prey with sharp eyes, a hooked beak and strong claws (talons), which hunts small animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hawk/#m1)

2) (verb) To sell things by walking about and calling out, like at a market. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hawk/#m2)

3) (verb) To clear your throat noisily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hawk/#m3)

4) A person who prefers strong, warlike actions (opposite of a dove). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hawk/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science: hawks are predators at the top of a food chain; they have amazing eyesight. Phrases: «eyes like a hawk», «watch someone like a hawk» (watch very closely). In history: street sellers hawked goods (a hawker).

### examples

- A hawk was circling high above the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hawk/#x1)
- The hawk swooped down and caught a mouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hawk/#x2)
- Our teacher watches us like a hawk during tests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hawk/#x3)
- The hawk's sharp talons grip its prey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hawk/#x4)
- Street sellers hawked newspapers on the corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hawk/#x5)
- Hawks can see a mouse from very high up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hawk/#x6)

### note

Countable. Verb: hawked, hawking; a «hawker» is a street seller. Hawks are birds of prey like eagles and falcons but usually smaller than eagles. Do not confuse with «hock».

### In the corpora

- [Harris's hawks hunt in family groups, which is rare for birds of prey, and they are often trained by falconers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/15/)
- [Almost everyone wants to eat a mouse: cats, owls, foxes, weasels, snakes and hawks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/0/)
- [In Kenya, hornbills and dwarf mongooses team up: the birds catch insects the mongooses disturb and call out warnings of hawks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/15/)
- [Raptors held their big curved toe claw off the ground while walking and probably used it to pin down prey, like hawks today.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/7/)
- [Hawking's leaking, called Hawking radiation, has never been directly observed, because it is far too faint.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/25-black-holes/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hawk» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hawk/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.