Usually means: Small bird of prey species.
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  1. sparrow hawk: Merriam-Webster
  2. sparrow hawk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sparrow hawk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sparrow hawk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sparrow hawk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sparrow-Hawk, Sparrow-hawk, sparrow-hawk, sparrow hawk: Wordnik
  7. sparrow hawk: Wiktionary
  8. sparrow hawk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. sparrow hawk: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sparrow hawk: Dictionary.com
  11. Sparrow Hawk (pinnace), Sparrow Hawk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. sparrow hawk: Rhymezone
  13. sparrow-hawk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. sparrow hawk: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sparrow hawk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sparrow hawk: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sparrow hawk: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sparrow hawk)

noun:  The American kestrel or American sparrowhawk (Falco sparverius), a small falcon found in North and South America that preys on grasshoppers and small animals.
noun:  Alternative form of sparrowhawk; the Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), a small, short-winged European hawk and other similar Old World hawks in the subfamily Accipitrinae, that prey on smaller birds. [A Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds.]

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