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Definition of Haggards
1. haggard [n] - See also: haggard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haggards
Literary usage of Haggards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of Modern Faulconry: To which is Prefixed, from Authors Not by James Campbell (1773)
"Of the Times when haggards are to be taken into the Mew ; and how to prepare them
for it. ... of March haggards leave the countries abroad, where they had ..."
2. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1841)
"... burning of Houses, Barns, haggards, and Corn, and for other Purposes, whereby,
and by Two Acts therein recited, passed respectively in the Seventh and ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"A hawk; specifically, in falconry, I know, her spirits are as coy and wild As
haggards of the rock. Shak., Much Ado, iii. 1. upon carrion, even while we aim ..."
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