Meaning

1 senses
  1. A trained and seasoned hawk flown with young birds to teach them to take the quarry.

Origin

From make (“companion, peer”) + hawk.

From make (“companion, peer”) + hawk.

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Forms

plural: make-hawks

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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