crook-beaked

Updated: July 7, 2025

Methought I had twenty household fowl which did eat wheat steeped in water from my hand, and there came suddenly from the clouds a crook-beaked hawk who soused on them and killed them all, trussing their necks, then took his flight back up to the clouds.

Charles Lamb - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 3 : Books for Children