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 Translation for 'hawking' from English to French
NOUN   hawking | -
VERB   to hawk | hawked | hawked
hawking | hawks
SYNO Hawking | hawking | peddling | ...
chasseorn.
chasse {f} au faucon
hawking
comm.
faire du colportage
to go hawking [sell goods in public areas]
orn.sportvêt.
gantelet {m} [en fauconnerie]
hawking glove
astron.phys.
rayonnement {m} de Hawking [aussi : évaporation des trous noirs]
Hawking radiation
astron.math.phys.
théorèmes {m.pl} sur les singularités
Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems
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  • rayonnement {m} de Hawking [aussi : évaporation des trous noirs] = Hawking radiation
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Usage Examples English
  • The black-thighed puffleg feeds on nectar, usually at the flowers of low-growing plants like "Fuchsia" and Arecaceae. Its diet also includes insects taken by hawking.
  • The long-eared myotis feeds by both substrate-gleaning of the ground or of trees, and by aerial-hawking.
  • Street cries are the short lyrical calls of merchants hawking their products and services in open-air markets.
  • Medieval Normans distinguished falconry from the sport of 'hawking'.
  • They wait on an open perch usually rather high or on top of the tree and fly out to catch insects in flight, (hawking).

  • Ch. 7 (23): While on a hawking expedition, Eveline is captured by a band of Welshmen.
  • In 1903, a bill was drafted by the Chinese Protectorate to provide licensing of hawkers and setting aside spaces where hawking was allowed.
  • James VI stayed at Crichton on 19 June 1598, his birthday, after a day's hawking.
  • Long-tailed bats hunt by hawking, or capturing and consuming aerial insects while flying.
  • After consulting the Department of Justice and considering Chu’s background, the FEHD dropped the unlicensed hawking activity charge against the 75-year-old.

  • This species usually found hawking over shallow streams where it breeds.
  • Salvin's early love of hawking was stimulated by an acquaintance with John Tong, assistant falconer to Thomas Thornton.
  • In 1880 Williams launched a travelling medicine show, hawking "liver bags".
  • This traditional hawking style is threatened by government policies and modernisation.
  • Legality of this practice varies by location and protected status of the quarry and some falconers consider car hawking to be extremely unsporting.

  • The small pratincole is a species of open country, and is often seen near water in the evening, hawking for insects.
  • They wait on an open perch and fly out to catch insects in flight, (hawking), also sometimes picking insects from foliage while hovering, (gleaning).
  • In 1680, Thomas Thynne of Longleat gave Penruddocke a licence for hawking, hunting, fishing and fowling in Dinton, Wiltshire.
  • Late in the 1870s Harting started the New Hawking Club to enable Londoners to observe falconry; the Old Hawking Club was in the Salisbury Plain which was too far away for most people.
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