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Definition of Hammerkop
1. n. A bird of the Heron family; the umber.
Definition of Hammerkop
1. Noun. A bird from southern Africa, ''Scopus umbretta'', of the Scopidae family and related to the herons. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hammerkop
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Medical Definition of Hammerkop
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hammerkop
Literary usage of Hammerkop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eclipse & OK̓elly: Being a Complete History So Far as is Known of that by Theodore Andrea Cook (1907)
"hammerkop . . . 5 FOUR MILES AND 856 YARDS. (Steeplechase over Thirty Fences.)
1906. Liverpool Grand National. Ascetic's Silver (lost. 9) 9-34$ 1893. ..."
2. A Country Schoolmaster by James Shaw (1899)
"The building and decorating of these bowers must have cost much trouble, and are
certainly wonderful specimens of bird- architecture. The hammerkop of South ..."
3. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1901)
"(hammerkop.) A pair of these highly interesting and peculiar birds have been
constructing a huge nest in a willow tree near this place for the last month, ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1904)
"... Major E. Loder's hammerkop was second, and Mr. A. Raphael's Skyscraper third.
Ten ran. 30. Lord Monkswell formally opened the Marble Hill Park at ..."
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