Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A young eagle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A young eagle; a little eagle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A young eagle, or a diminutive eagle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
immature young of aneagle ; an eaglechick .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a young eagle
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Examples
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An Eagle Named Freedom (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): An Eagle Named Freedom (Morrow) chronicles how Jeff Guidry nurtured an eaglet with two broken wings back to health — and then, when Guidry began fighting his own battle against non-Hodgkins lymphoma, the eagle guided him to fight for his own life.
Portland Book Events: May 22-28 - Reading Local: Portland 2010
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So she asked each eaglet what he or she would do when she was old and utterly dependent on their care.
In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010
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The first eaglet answered, “Stay and take care of you, Mother, for the rest of your life.”
In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010
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An Eagle Named Freedom (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): An Eagle Named Freedom (Morrow) chronicles how Jeff Guidry nurtured an eaglet with two broken wings back to health — and then, when Guidry began fighting his own battle against non-Hodgkins lymphoma, the eagle guided him to fight for his own life.
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Dependent too long after independence, fragile like the eaglet
Professor Emman Osakwe « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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For this fragile eaglet, ready to fall, unable to fly
Professor Emman Osakwe « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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Third eaglet hatched late on Sunday, April 12 by Meryl Ann Butler on Tuesday, Apr 14, 2009 at 11: 27: 17 AM
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Eaglets Hatching Now on Live Web Cam 2009
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Sometimes the mother eagle takes a break and the father sits on the eggs for a few hours but fidgets, offering a glimpse of the new eaglet. '
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Eaglets Hatching Now on Live Web Cam 2009
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Sometimes the mother eagle takes a break and the father sits on the eggs for a few hours but fidgets, offering a glimpse of the new eaglet.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Eaglets Hatching Now on Live Web Cam 2009
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Swiss is as safe by his side as an eaglet under the wings of its dam; and to leave us because danger approaches, is but a poor compliment to our courage or constancy.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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