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Tiercel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Variant of tercel.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A male hawk or falcon, used in falconry.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. See tercel, tercelet.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon

Word Usage

"“Báz” (here Richardson is wrong s.v.); a term to a certain extent generic, but specially used for the noble Peregrine (F. Peregrinator) whose tiercel is the"

Equivalent

tiercelet

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

hawk

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

tercelet tarse