English Explanatory Dictionary

hawkshaw

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A detective.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD7515).
  3. A suburb of Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6823).
  4. 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)
  5. A community in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.
  6. A government town near Moockra, South Australia.

Word forms

hawkshaw hawkshaws

Etymology

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.

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