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To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.

A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.

Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift. They make but bungling work. Dryden.

Clumsily; awkwardly.

used in allusion to the custom observed by the North American Indians, of burying a tomahawk when they conclude a peace.

A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera.

A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively longer.

To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc. [Prov.]

One who carries hawks on a cadge.

An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt. [Colloq.] Some silly, doting, brainless calf. Drayton.

To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. [Obs.] Nares. He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced To cancelier. Massinger.

The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop. [Obs.] The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies, Make sundry canceliers are they the fowl can reach. Drayton.

The fight of a hawk.

The hawkbill turtle. See Hawkbill.

A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year. Booth.

hich is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.

See Cawk, Calker.

Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.

A peddler; a hawker.

A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.