hawkshaw

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hawkshaw^¹

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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.

noun hawkshaws

dated, obsolete A detective.

Hawkshaw^²

proper noun

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 […]
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.

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@misc{hawkshaw_2026,
  title = {hawkshaw},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hawkshaw},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}