Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rough-legged hawk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also
rough-legged hawk , andrough-legged buzzard .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Buteo lagopus, a
bird of prey .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers
Etymologies
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rough + leg
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Examples
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I was on my way home from Lander, having borrowed the region's fur and skull collections, when I spotted the roughleg swooping over the greasewood along the highway.
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And spotted a second roughleg on a powerpole at Lamont.
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Passed a hawk on a reflector post on the drive home, and it wasn't a roughleg!
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A roughleg soaring across a snow-covered willow field was the only wildlife.
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