haggard
A hunting bird captured as an adultA hunting bird captured as an adult.
Recorded: Commander Keane, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Meaning
5 sensesA 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.
(Ireland, Scotland, dialectal)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
(obsolete)A fierce, intractable creature.
(obsolete)A hag.
- British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
Examples
10 sentencesTom looks haggard.
deTom sieht ausgezehrt aus. — Felixjp
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.
Origin
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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