HAWKINS

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• HAWKINS (noun)
  The noun HAWKINS has 2 senses:

1. English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)

2. United States jazz saxophonist (1904-1969)

  Familiarity information: HAWKINS used as a noun is rare.

• HAWKINS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hawkins; Hawkyns; Sir John Hawkins; Sir John Hawkyns

Instance hypernyms:

privateer; privateersman (an officer or crew member of a privateer)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States jazz saxophonist (1904-1969)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Coleman Hawkins; Hawkins

Instance hypernyms:

saxist; saxophonist (a musician who plays the saxophone)

 Context examples 

Hawkins, will you ring that bell?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mina's is in shorthand, and I simply ask Mr. Hawkins to communicate with her.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A Miss Hawkins—that's all I know.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Do you remember Hawkins Browne's 'Address to Tobacco,' in imitation of Pope?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

This lad Hawkins is a trump, I perceive.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You come to me not alone as agent of my friend Peter Hawkins, of Exeter, to tell me all about my new estate in London.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Miss Hawkins,—I dare say, an excellent young woman.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“As you will, Livesey,” said the squire; “Hawkins has earned better than cold pie.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He will be in Exeter, miles away, probably working at papers of the law with my other friend, Peter Hawkins.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The information was, as you state, that he was going to be married to a Miss Hawkins.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)