Definition of awk

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Awk (a.) Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward.

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Blunder :: Blunder (v. i.) To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble..
Maladroit :: Maladroit (a.) Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful.
Fly :: Fly (v. t.) To hunt with a hawk.
Buzzardet :: Buzzardet (n.) A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively longer..
Awkward :: Awkward (a.) Perverse; adverse; untoward.
Tweedle :: Tweedle (v. t.) To handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure..
Goody-goody :: Goody-goody (a.) Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness.
Clouterly :: Clouterly (n.) Clumsy; awkward.
Check :: Check (n.) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
Ungain :: Ungain (a.) Ungainly; clumsy; awkward; also, troublesome; inconvenient..
Toret :: Toret (n.) A ring for fastening a hawk's leash to the jesses; also, a ring affixed to the collar of a dog, etc..
Drawing Knife :: Drawing knife (n.) Alt. of Drawknif.
Cadge :: Cadge (n.) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
Inconvenience :: Inconvenience (n.) The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement..
Gowk :: Gowk (n.) The European cuckoo; -- called also gawky.
Unseel :: Unseel (v. t.) To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled; hence, to give light to; to enlighten..
Heterocera :: Heterocera (n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennae variable in form..
Canceleer :: Canceleer (n.) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop..
Tiercelet :: Tiercelet (n.) The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk..
Fumble :: Fumble (v. i.) To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse..
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