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Definition of windhover

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Kestrel Kes"trel (k[e^]s"tr[e^]l), n. [See Castrel.] (Zo["o]l.) A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species. Note: This word is often used in contempt, as of a mean kind of hawk. ``Kites and kestrels have a resemblance with hawks.' --Bacon.
Windhover
Windhover Wind"hov`er, n. [From its habit of hovering over one spot.] (Zo["o]l.) The kestrel; -- called also windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner. [Prov. Eng.]

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- up windhover in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Windhover may refer to: Common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), a bird of prey species "The Windhover", a...
- "The Windhover" is a sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889). It was written on 30 May 1877, but not published until 1914, when it was included as...
- windows of his studio in the Stanford Hills. This series was dubbed the "Windhover" series by Oliveira's friend, poet Desmond Egan. He made parallels between...
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- array of sonnets that included "The Starlight Night". He finished "The Windhover" only a few months before his ordination. His life as a Jesuit trainee...
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- USS Windhover (ASR-18) was projected as a Chanticleer-class submarine rescue ship and was to be built at Savannah, Georgia, by the Savannah Machine Foundry;...
- organized an annual Buddhist educational program, originally held at the Windhover Center for the Performing Arts in Rockport, M****achusetts, and then in...
- to drive and keep away pigeons. Archaic names for the kestrel include windhover and wind****er, due to its habit of beating the wind (hovering in air)...
- Jewish, and Sikh groups, though these groups vary year by year. The Windhover Contemplation Center was dedicated in October 2014, and was intended to...