A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1456, 1567-1621, 1687-1691
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Hawk, Hauk(e, v. Also: hawck, haucke, halk, haulk. [ME. hawke, hauke (c 1345).] To hawk, to go hawking, to practise hawking. intr.1456 Hay II. 23/14.
To hunt and hauk at hert and hynde [etc.] 1572-5 Diurnal of Occurrents 101.
The kingis grace … was with his fader, halkand and huntand 1572-5 Ib. 342. 1621 Acts IV. 629/1.
That no man hunt nor haulk … quha hes not a pleughe of land in heretage1569-73 Bann. Memor. 139.
The queinis majestie … is … licentiat to hauke [v.r. haucke] and hunt 1687 Cromarty Corr. I. 53.
That I may come and hawck with yowtr. a1568 Scott v. 37.
In May grit men within thair boundis Sum halkis the walteris 1691 Seafield Corr. 71.
If ye could allow me ane falcon or tuo at this tyme, I shall cause haulk one of them for your owen use
