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hen-hawks

hen-hawks is the plural of hen-hawk.

Meaning of hen-hawk

Noun

hen-hawk (plural hen-hawks)

  1. (informal) Any hawk supposed to prey on poultry.
    • The ordinary large reddish "hen hawks," which circle high above meadows, are doing great good to the farmer by feeding upon the mice and other creatures which steal his grain and girdle his trees.1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 108

Phrases with hen-hawks

Questions about hen-hawks

What is hen-hawks the plural of?
Hen-hawks is the plural of hen-hawk.

Words near hen-hawks in the dictionary

  1. hen's tooth
  2. hen's-foot
  3. hen-cackle
  4. hen-cackles
  5. hen-hawk
  6. hen-hawks
  7. hen-hearted
  8. hen-heartedness
  9. hen-house
  10. hen-houses
  11. hen-mould

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