Obs. rare1. [Of obscure origin; prob. an erroneous form.
Not for WASP-KITE, as that word (if genuine) denotes a bird of the Old World.]
Given by Izaak Walton as the name of a long-winged hawk, native of Virginia.
1655. Walton, Angler, i. (1661), 13. [List of long-winged hawks.] The Waskite from Virginia.