Hawkling vs Hawking - What's the difference?
hawkling | hawking |
A small, young, or immature hawk.
*1851 , Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland, Lives of the queens of England :
*1913 , The Oriole - Volumes 1-4 - Page 18:
*2009 , Nancy Werlin, Locked Inside :
As a noun hawkling
is a small, young, or immature hawk.As a proper noun hawking is
, variant of hawkins.hawkling
English
Noun
(en noun)- The young nestlings of hawks; these hawklings being untrained, and good for little in falconry.
- 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.
- It was a bird, a small hawkling . A baby. And as she watched, it began to stretch its wet, feeble wings.