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Hawking vs Falconry - What's the difference?

hawking | falconry |

As nouns the difference between hawking and falconry

is that hawking is action of the verb to hawk while falconry is the sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey, especially falcons and hawks.

As a verb hawking

is present participle of lang=en.

As a proper noun Hawking

is {{surname|A=An|English patronymic|from=given names}}, variant of Hawkins.

hawking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Action of the verb to hawk .
  • * 1982 , Chinese Literature
    • Boats shuttled to and fro, and the hawkings and peddlings of all sorts of wares helped to create an amazing scene of activity and prosperity.

    falconry

    English

    (wikipedia falconry)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey, especially falcons and hawks.
  • * 1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=619143512&textreg=1&query=+falconry&id=ThoWald]
    • ...looking up, I observed a very slight and graceful hawk, like a night-hawk, alternately soaring like a ripple and tumbling a rod or two over and over, showing the underside of its wings, which gleamed like a satin ribbon in the sun, or like the pearly inside of a shell. This sight reminded me of falconry and what nobleness and poetry are associated with that sport.