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BLACK HAWK
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• BLACK HAWK (noun)
The noun BLACK HAWK has 1 sense:
1. Sauk leader who in 1832 led Fox and Sauk warriors against the United States (1767-1838)
Familiarity information: BLACK HAWK used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sauk leader who in 1832 led Fox and Sauk warriors against the United States (1767-1838)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Black Hawk; Makataimeshekiakiak
Instance hypernyms:
Sac; Sauk (a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay)
Indian chief; Indian chieftain (the leader of a group of Native Americans)
Context examples
The researchers took samples from the surfaces of 149 gravestones in the Cementerio de Montjuic in Barcelona, Spain; El Queremal Cementario in Valle de Cauca Province, Colombia; Dory Hill Cemetery in Black Hawk, Colorado; and other graveyards.
(Tales from the crypt: Life after death in a graveyard, National Science Foundation)
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