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gosshawk

gosshawk is the alternative form of goshawk.

Meaning of goshawk

Noun

goshawk (plural goshawks)

  1. Any of several birds of prey, principally in the genus Accipiter.
    • But you heed me no more than a goss-hawk minds a yellow yoldring.1820, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in The Abbot. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and...

Forms of gosshawk

pluralgosshawks

Questions about gosshawk

What is gosshawk the alternative form of?
Gosshawk is the alternative form of goshawk.

Words near gosshawk in the dictionary

  1. Gosser
  2. Gossers
  3. gosses
  4. Gossett
  5. Gossetts
  6. gosshawk
  7. gosshawks
  8. gossib
  9. gossibs
  10. gossima
  11. Gossington

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