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Definition of Honked
1. honk [v] - See also: honk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Honked
Literary usage of Honked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray (1868)
"... peduncle not longer than the involucre : sepals 4-7, oval, white, sometimes
tinged with purple outside; carpels only 15-20, oblong, with a honked beak. ..."
2. Joaquin Miller's Poems by Joaquin Miller (1909)
"XIX Swift narrows now, and now and then A broken boat with drowning men; The
wide, still marshes, dank as death, Where honked the wild goose long and loud ..."
3. With Three Armies on and Behind the Western Front by Arthur Stanley Riggs (1918)
"Down into a little valley dropped the motor, whirled off to one side through a
field, darted through a close-growing copse, and honked for the gateway to ..."
4. The Story of the Indians of New England by Alma Holman Burton (1896)
"They howled like wolves, bleated like the fawns, honked, honked like the wild
geese, and gobbled, gobbled like the turkeys, which came in droves to the oak ..."
5. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1914)
"... the big gander, grabbed him by the fetlock and both geese honked and screamed,
and really I never saw a horse more frightened before nor since. ..."
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