Crossword-Solution: HAWK 4 letters, 127 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Hawk	n.	One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk.
Hawk	v. i.	To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry.
Hawk	v. i.	To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies.
Hawk	v. i.	To clear the throat with an audible sound by forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the removal of foreign substances.
Hawk	v. t.	To raise by hawking, as phlegm.
Hawk	n.	An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.
Hawk	v. t.	To offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets.
Hawk	n.	A small board, with a handle on the under side, to hold mortar.

We have 127 clues for the answer “HAWK”

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"Black ___ Down"	1 answer
"Tony ___: Shred" (skateboarding video game)	1 answer
Aggressive type	1 answer
Airborne predator	1 answer
Atlanta cager	1 answer
Atlanta hoopster	1 answer
Avid war campaigner	1 answer
BOARD with handle underneath	1 answer
BRING up from throat	1 answer
BRING up phlegm	1 answer
Bird of prey that can move 150 mph	1 answer
Bird signifying war	1 answer
Bird that can cough things up?	1 answer
Bird with a red-tailed variety	1 answer
Bob of the radio.	1 answer
CARRY about for sale (fig.)	1 answer
CARRY goods about for sale (fig.)	1 answer
CLEAR the throat noisily	1 answer
Clean the throat loudly	1 answer
DIARNUL bird of prey	1 answer
Dove opposite	1 answer
Dove's antithesis	1 answer
Dove's counterpart	1 answer
Dove's foe	1 answer
Dove's opposite	1 answer
Falcon cousin	1 answer
Flier #1	1 answer
GREEK sacred bird	1 answer
Good watcher	1 answer
Graceful glider	1 answer
Hard-liner	1 answer
Iconic metaphor for keen-eyed watchfulness	1 answer
Iowa athlete	1 answer
It preys from above	1 answer
It preys overhead	1 answer
Keen-eyed bird of prey	1 answer
Kite's relative.	1 answer
Kite, for example	1 answer
Marvel hero with, aptly, a bird on his chest	1 answer
Neocon, e.g.	1 answer
One inclined to fight	1 answer
One wanting war	1 answer
One watching very, very closely	1 answer
Overhead predator	1 answer
Peddle goods	1 answer
Peddle inexpensive goods	1 answer
Peddle popcorn, e.g.	1 answer
Peddle vociferously	1 answer
Pitch aggressively	1 answer
Pro-war sort	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

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greedy person

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Sentences with HAWK (5)

Friends of mine are all the serpents! Hear me shake my skin of hen-hawk! Mahng, the white loon, I can kill him; I can shoot your heart and kill it! I can blow you strong, my brother, I can heal you, Hiawatha !” “Hi-au-ha!” replied the chorus, “Wayhaway!” the mystic chorus.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk A MOUSE who always lived on the land, by an unlucky chance formed an intimate acquaintance with a Frog, who lived for the most part in the water.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one’s back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

The rapidity of her glide into this position was that of a kingfisher—its noiselessness that of a hawk.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

The masterly horsemanship of the Disinherited Knight, and the activity of the noble animal which he mounted, enabled him for a few minutes to keep at sword’s point his three antagonists, turning and wheeling with the agility of a hawk upon the wing, keeping his enemies as far separate as he could, and rushing now against the one, now against the other, dealing sweeping blows with his sword, without waiting to receive those which were aimed at him in return.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

Quotes with HAWK (3)

Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up…

Truman Capote Breakfast at Tiffany's

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls

Arianne had her feet up on the table, wearing a striped conductor's cap. Arriane was fixated on the game. A chocolate cigar bobbed between her lips as she contemplated her next move. Roland was giving Arianne the hawk eye." Checkmate, bitch," Arianne said triumphantly, knocking over Roland's king.

Lauren Kate

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 152 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).