Word Meanings - HERONSHAW - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A heron.
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- HERONSHAW
A heron. - HERONSEW
A heronshaw. Chaucer. - HERONER
A hawk used in hunting the heron. "Heroner and falcon." Chaucer. - HERON
Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidæ. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron is remarkable for its directly ascending - HERONRY
A place where herons breed. - ACHERONTIC
Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund. - ACHERON
A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak. - PERCHERON
One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.