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- noun A large Australian
eagle ,Aquila audax .
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Examples
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With an eye as fierce as an eaglehawk, and a crow like a trumpet call,
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But at daylight an eaglehawk was watching them from a tree, and Brown shot it.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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The fierce-featured eaglehawk flies -- afraid as a dove is afraid;
The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens Henry Kendall 1860
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A solitary eaglehawk sat on the top branch of a dead gum-tree, watching him with evil eyes; a chorus of laughing jackasses cackled after him in derision from a grove of young timber; a magpie, the joy of the morning, and most mirthful of birds, whistled for him sweet notes of hope and good cheer; then a number of carrion crows beheld him, and approached with their long-drawn, ill-omened "croank, croank," the most dismal note ever uttered by any living thing.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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