Meanings
hawkshaw1
Hawkshaw2
- A surname.
Not only has front woman Kirsty Hawkshaw replaced her space-age baldness with a glamorous new look, but the music that fills the act's EastWest album is far more complex and substantial […]
1994, Billboard, volume 106, number 24, page 26 - A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD7515).
- A suburb of Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6823).
- A tiny settlement on the Tweed, south-west of Tweedsmuir, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, at the mouth of Hawkshaw Burn (OS grid ref NT0722)
- A community in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.
- A government town near Moockra, South Australia.
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From Hawkshaw the Detective, a character in Tom Taylor's 1863 play The Ticket of Leave Man. The name was later borrowed in the early 20th century for a character in an American comic strip.
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