haggard
A hunting bird captured as an adultA hunting bird captured as an adult.
» Tom looks haggard.
Tom sieht ausgezehrt aus.
Значення
значень: 5A hunting bird captured as an adult.
1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced
A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
(Ірландія, Шотландія, діалектне)A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm
(застаріле)A fierce, intractable creature.
(застаріле)A hag.
- British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
Приклади
речень: 10Tom looks haggard.
deTom sieht ausgezehrt aus.
Lone lions, alas, always end up being hunted and haggard.
You look positively haggard.
Her face was haggard and thin and eager, stamped with the print of a recent horror.
Holmes sat in a great, old-fashioned chair, his inexorable eyes gleaming out of his haggard face.
Походження
From Middle French haggard, from Old French faulcon hagard (“wild falcon”) ( > French hagaFrom Middle French haggard, from Old French faulcon hagard (“wild falcon”) ( > French hagard (“dazed”)), from Middle High German hag (“coppice”) ( > archaic German Hag (“hedge, grove”)). Akin to Frankish *hagia ( > French haie (“hedge”))
From Old Norse heygarðr (“hay-yard”).
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множина: haggardsСиноніми
синонімів: 3- British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925):H. Rider HaggardRider HaggardSir Henry Rider Haggard