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meat hawk
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a gray, crestless jay, Perisoreus canadensis.
See: Canada jay
Quotations
1956
[The Canada jay is also called] meat hawk (. . . N.S., Ont.); meat jay (. . . N.S.). . . .
1963
His [Canada jay's] names, all Canadian, are: whisky jack, whisky john, moose bird, meat bird, camp robber, meat hawk, and lumberjack.