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merlin: synonyms: chicken hawk ???

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a small falcon that preys on smaller birds. It is also known as a chicken hawk.

^{photo: By Just a Prairie Boy from Calgary, AB, Canada - Merlin: Whaddya mean share?, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26360993}
^{sound file: by Jonathon Jongsma under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.}
^{https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Falco_columbarius_-_Merlin_-_XC101582.ogg}

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the wolf wears a fair face to devour the lamb, the merlin strikes at the partridge, the eagle often snaps at the fly, men are always laying baits for women,

John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)

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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.55, https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/55/mode/1up

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Ulysses vocabulary

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merlin

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