Definition of "haggard" in English

adjective

1. Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition

   • Pale and haggard faces.
   • A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.
   • The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard.

2. (of an animal) Wild or untamed

   • a haggard or refractory hawk

noun

1. (falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.

   • 1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced

2. (falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

3. (obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.

4. (obsolete) A hag.

noun

1. (dialect, Isle of Man, Ireland, Scotland) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.

   • He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm