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▪ I. hawked, a.1|hɔːkt| [f. hawk n.1 + -ed: cf. hooked.] Curved like a hawk's beak; aquiline.
1577Hellowes Gueuara's Chron. 72 Adrian had an high bodie..nose somewhat hawked. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. xi. 333 Flat noses seem comly unto the Moore, an Aquiline or hawked one unto the Persian. 1712Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 439 He had a hawk'd Nose. 1845James Step-Mother (1846) II. xxiii. 351 A stout, well-made, hawked-faced man. ▪ II. hawked, a.2 Sc. and north. dial.|hɔːkt| Also hawkit. [Derivation obscure.] Of cattle: ‘Having white spots or streaks’ (Jam.); spotted, streaked, as in red-hawked.
1500–20Dunbar Fenȝeit Freir 103 He maid a hundreth nolt all hawkit. 1612–3in N. Riding Rec. (1884) II. 11 A cow..red hawked in colour. 1658W. Chamberlayne Love's Victory in Pharonnida iv. (1850) 181 As much as the slit in our hawked bullock's ear. 1811W. Aiton Agric. Ayrshire xiv. 425 A cow with much white on her neck was termed a hawked cow. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxix, I do still haud by the real hawkit Airshire breed. |