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sparhawk Now arch. or dial.|ˈspɑːhɔːk|
Forms: α. 1 spaerhabuc, spearhafoc, 4–7 sparhauk(e, 5–6 Sc. -halk, 5–7 -hawke, 6– sparhawk. β. 4–6 sperhauk(e, 5–7 -hawk(e. γ. 4, 6 sparehauk(e, 5 -hawk, 7 -haucke. δ. 4, 6 sperehauke, 5 -hawk(e.
[OE. spearhafoc, f. the stem of spearwa sparrow + hafoc hawk: so ON. sparrhaukr.]
A sparrowhawk.
αc725Corpus Gloss. A. 432 Alietum, spaerhabuc. c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 132 Accipiter, uel raptor, spearhafoc. a1300Cursor M. 1789 Þe sparhauk flough be þe sterling. c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 1192 What might or may the sely larke seie, Whanne that this sparhauk hath it in his foote? 1438Bk. Alexander Grt. (Bann.) 12 It semis thay sparhalkis war & we lawrokis that durst bot dar. 1483Caxton Cato h vj b, It is sayd in a comyn prouerbe that crafte is better than the Sparhawke. 1560Rolland Seven Sages 28 The Sparhalk is als swyft of flicht As the Griffoun. 1598Bp. Hall Sat. iv. iv. 88 Gallio may..tend his spar-hauke mantling in her mew. 1639Massinger Unnatural Combat v. i, How her heart beats! Much like a partridge in a sparhawk's foot. 1661J. Childrey Brit. Bacon. 13 Sparhawks, the most useless of Hawks. 1700Tyrrell Hist. Eng. II. 820 The Ayries of Hawks, of Spar-Hawks. 1842Tennyson Sir Launcelot & Q. Guinevere ii, Sometimes the sparhawk wheel'd along. 1865Kingsley Herew. iv, In the first [copse] there built an eagle, in the second there built a sparhawk. 1891‘Son of Marshes’ Surrey Hills (1894) 44 Spar'hawk, the woodmen call him.
β1377Langl. P. Pl. B. vi. 199 What pieres preyed hem to do as prest as a sperhauke. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 335 Þere is grete plente of..sperhaukes. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 299 That he be lord of his subjectis, as to the quaile the sper-hauk. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon vi. 152 The kyng gaaf to hym a sper⁓hawke. 1539Fitzherb. Survey. xi. 26 Except it be an entiere rent, as a sperhauke or a hors. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 300 Haukes, as faulcons, gerfalcons, lanners, and sperhaukes. 1602L. Lloyd Briefe Conf. Divers Lawes 32 The feather of a sperhawke in their caps.
γa1400Mandeville (1839) xxii. 238 Gerfacouns, Spare⁓haukes, Faukons gentyls. 1486Bk. St. Albans c viij b, She may be also callid a spare hawke for .ij. Resones, oon is she sparith goshawkys and tercellys both. 1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §8 (1877) 60 Also we have hawkes of the towre,..lykewyse goshawkes, and sparehawkes for ladyes. 1587Golding De Mornay xxvi. (1592) 416 The Woolfe, the Foxe,..the Sparehauke, the Kyte & so foorth. 1612Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 201 Foure spare⁓haucke hoodes, xijd. 1890J. Watson Nat. & Woodcraft viii, The Gamekeeper..will record a black and bloody list of depredations against the ‘spare’-hawk.
δ1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. iv. (Bodl. MS.), Hereby it semeþ þt alietus and a litel sperehauke is all one. c1440Promp. Parv. 468/2 Sperehawke.., nisus. c1500Melusine xxiv. 175 His enemyes fled byfore hym as the partrych doth byfore the sperehauke. |