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Definition of Hawkies
1. hawkie [n] - See also: hawkie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawkies
Literary usage of Hawkies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Caleb in Town: A Story for Children by Jacob Abbott (1839)
"As the readers of this book will probably like to know how the hawkies happened
to disappear so suddenly, I may as well tell them, though it will lead me ..."
2. Journal of Proceedings, and Addresses by National Educational Association (U.S.) (1891)
"Haley, TP, Kansas City. Hamilton, DL. Kansas^City. Harrison, Belle, Kansas City.
Harvey, Nathan, Kansas City. Hawk, Emma, Dresden. hawkies, WJ, Nevada. ..."
3. Historical and Statistical Account of Dunfermline by Peter Chalmers (1859)
"There are at present about 800 men, women, and children dependent on the colliery,
of whom 630 are resident in houses belonging to it, at hawkies-Fauld, ..."
4. ʻFor Puir Auld Scotlandś Sake;̓: A Book of Prose Essays (with a Few Poetical by James Logie Robertson (1887)
"There was a break of two hours, beginning at noon, in the long summer day, during
which, while the maids milked the hawkies^ and the ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... The sparrow hawke, and manie hawkies gode. Just in the prime of life, whan
others court Some ..."
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