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Hackling vs Hawkling - What's the difference?

hackling | hawkling |

As a verb hackling

is .

As a noun hawkling is

a small, young, or immature hawk.

hackling

English

Verb

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    • hawkling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.