haggard

UK /ˈhæɡ.əd/ US /ˈhæɡ.əd/
noun 5adj 2name 2

Definitions

adj

1

Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition

Pale and haggard faces.

A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.

2

Wild or untamed

a haggard or refractory hawk

noun

1

A hunting bird captured as an adult.

No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful; I know her spirits are as coy and wild As haggards of the rock.

1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced

2

A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

3

A fierce, intractable creature.

I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.

4

A hag.

In a dark Grott the baleful Haggard lay, Breathing black Vengeance, and infecting Day

noun

1

A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.

He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm

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