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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Goishalk, n. Also: goyshalk, goishavk. [Earlier form of Goshalk, with gois = guse, as in e.m.E. gose-, goose-hawke (16th c.), OE. góshafoc.] A goshawk. c1450-2 Howlat 326.
Gois halkis war governouris of the gret oist 1490 Treas. Acc. I. 175.
Til a man … that brocht a goyshalk to the King c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxii. 14.
The gentill goishalk gois vndynd 1513 Doug. xi. xiii. 170.
Als lychtly as the happy goishalk … persewis wonder sair The silly dow 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xlii.
Of fowlis, sic as leiffis of reif, … as ernis, goishalkis, sparhalkis, marlyonis 1567 Sat. P. iii. 47.
Ane gay goishalk vpone his hand to beir 1584 Waus Corr. II. 313.
Johnne Kennedy hes declarit to me that ye ar desirous to haue your goishalk fra Robert Stewart