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say it: hawk
hawk is a noun and verb meaning "diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail". It carries 6 recorded senses.
diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations
a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar
clear mucus or food from one's throat
“he cleared his throat before he started to speak”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hawk come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.