A bird of prey that hunts chickens and small birds, such as a hawk or falcon adapted to raiding henhouses.
Compound of 'hen' (domestic fowl) and 'hawk' (predatory bird), a straightforward descriptive name formed by common folk classification of birds by their hunting behavior.
Henhawk perfectly demonstrates how farmers created practical vocabulary—they named predators by what they hunted, so a 'henhawk' was instantly understood as a dangerous threat to the farm!
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