Definition of "short-winged" []

• Having comparatively or relatively short wings: specifically noting certain hawks used in falconry, as the goshawk, Astur palumbarius, in comparison with the true falcons, as the peregrine or gerfalcon.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Down below, the street names, the buildings, the shipyards and cemeteries are all full of ghost lives that have passed: Ezra Pound went there; Odysseus sailed by; Molly Bloom was from there and remembered its “Moorish wall”; Gilbert White knew his “soft-billed” and “short-winged” birds of passage went through there, but its people today and the people who go there seem broken and vague."
• "As Hadden and others had predicted, the Odedi proved to be a rather plain, short-winged, chestnut-coloured bush warbler."
• "Which his father Grangousier seeing, thought they had been lice, and said unto him, What, my dear son, hast thou brought us this far some short-winged hawks of the college of Montague?"