gosn.
= goshawk n.
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1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 71 Swift as the Gos drives on the wheeling hare.
1891 Field 7 Mar. 337/1 The mantle of snow is a fatal barrier to a day's hawking, either with ‘gos’ or peregrine.
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