hawkling

hawkling

English

Etymology

From hawk +‎ -ling.

Noun

hawkling (plural hawklings)

1. A small, young, or immature hawk.
   • 1851, Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland, Lives of the queens of England:

     The young nestlings of hawks; these hawklings being untrained, and good for little in falconry.

   • 1913, The Oriole - Volumes 1-4 - Page 18:

     The day's tragedies had begun; the east was warm with color, and streamers of light were woven through the clouds; but I thought that, somewhere near me, the mocker's' mate was sitting on her nest, and that somewhere, further away, there were young hawklings who, also, have a right to life.

   • 2009, Nancy Werlin, Locked Inside:

     It was a bird, a small hawkling. A baby. And as she watched, it began to stretch its wet, feeble wings.