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hack board

American  

noun

  1. Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.

Etymology

Origin of hack board

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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Screamer saw the food on the hack board and flew to it.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Screamer shuttled between Bovina and Perry’s hack board for almost a week.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

He carried Screamer to the hack board, a food platform on stilts.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Screamer, on the hack board, saw the shadow above him and instinctively crouched.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

He flapped and he flew, too, but only as far as a tree limb— not to the hack board.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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