单词 | hawk's eye |
释义 | ˈhawk's eye Also hawk-eye. 1. The eye of a hawk; hence, a sharp or keen eye like a hawk's.
1684Otway Atheist iv. i, A plague of her Hawk's Eyes! 1687Congreve Old Bach. i. i, I have a Hawk's Eye at a Woman's Hand. 1833Tennyson Poems 119 Your hawk⁓eyes are keen and bright. 1884Spurgeon in Sword & Trowel July 338 There are persons in the world who seem to have hawks' eyes where anything evil is concerned. 2. A name given to some species of plover, as the golden plover and the black-bellied plover.
1813A. Wilson Amer. Ornith. VII. 42 It is said, that at Hudson's Bay it [the black-bellied plover] is called the Hawk's-eye on account of its brilliancy. |

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