haggard

haggard
\ \ [16] Haggard was originally a falconer’s term for a hawk as yet untamed. It has been suggested that its ultimate source was Germanic *khag-, which also produced English hedge, the implication being that a haggard was a hawk that sat in a hedge rather than on the falconer’s arm. The modern meaning ‘gaunt’ developed in the 17th century, probably by association with hagugly old woman’ [13] (perhaps a shortening of Old English hægtessewitch’, a word of unknown origin related to German hexewitch’).
\ \ Cf.HEDGE

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