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Definition of Dorhawk
1. n. The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker.
Definition of Dorhawk
1. Noun. A bird, the European goatsucker. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dorhawk
1. a nocturnal bird [n -S]
Medical Definition of Dorhawk
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dorhawk
Literary usage of Dorhawk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"Poets thus become prosy ; Coleridge himself, whose speech usually resembles the
music of the spheres, then hums like a spinning-wheel or a dorhawk ..."
2. British Zoology by Thomas Pennant (1818)
"288. Fern Owl, Goatsucker,Goat Owl. Wil. orn. 107. Also, Churn Owl. Raii syn.
cm. 26. Cat. Carol, i. 8. dorhawk ..."
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