Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Faith; belief.
  • noun Credit; pledge; security.
  • noun In falconry, a fine small line fastened to a hawk's leash when it is first lured.
  • To borrow.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb obsolete To get on credit; to borrow.
  • noun obsolete Faith; belief; creed.
  • noun (Falconry) A fine, small line, fastened to a hawk's leash, when it is first lured.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun falconry A long leash, or lightweight cord used to prevent escape of a raptor during training flights.
  • verb obsolete, transitive To get on credit; to borrow.

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Examples

  • The “creance” is the long, light cord for tethering a falcon in training.

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

  • Wherfore it semethe wel, that God lovethe hem and is plesed with hire creance, for hire gode dedes.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Wherfore it semethe wel, that God lovethe hem and is plesed with hire creance, for hire gode dedes.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • She had been taken outside enough times on a creance to know all the places where escape might be possible.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • She had been taken outside enough times on a creance to know all the places where escape might be possible.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • A young gentleman very light of foot and light of heart, whistling merrily as he rewound the creance and soothed the ruffled bird.

    The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

  • Janyn was strolling jauntily back towards his headland and the open fields, where he could fly the merlin on his creance without tangling her in trees to her confusion and displeasure.

    The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

  • A young gentleman very light of foot and light of heart, whistling merrily as he rewound the creance and soothed the ruffled bird.

    The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

  • The sky had partially cleared by then, a mild and milky sun was warming the air without quite disseminating the mist, and the young man who came strolling along a headland with a hound at his heel and a half-trained merlin on a creance on his wrist had dew-darkened boots, and a spray of drops on his uncovered light-brown hair from the shaken leaves of some copse left behind him.

    The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

  • Janyn was strolling jauntily back towards his headland and the open fields, where he could fly the merlin on his creance without tangling her in trees to her confusion and displeasure.

    The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

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