chicken hawk Hear it!

chicken hawk definition

☆ chicken hawk

any of various hawks, esp. an accipiter, that prey, or are reputed to prey, on barnyard fowl

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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