Word Meanings - HERONSHAW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A heron.

Related words: (words related to HERONSHAW)

• HERONSHAW
  A heron.
• HERONSEW
  A heronshaw. Chaucer.
• HERONER
  A hawk used in hunting the heron. "Heroner and falcon." Chaucer.
• HERON
  Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidæ. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron is remarkable for its directly ascending
• HERONRY
  A place where herons breed.
• ACHERONTIC
  Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
• ACHERON
  A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.
• PERCHERON
  One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.