Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A male falcon or hawk, especially a peregrine falcon or gyrfalcon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A male falcon; especially, the male of the peregrine falcon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
tiercel . Called alsotarsel ,tassel .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
tiercel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To get the upper tercel you had to consider winds from 3-9 mph.
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All parker did was say “windy” means winds in the 3rd tercel.
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To Tyler a tercel spelled with a small t was a male falcon, a kind of hawk, that people train to kill prey.
T-Backs, T-shirts, Coat, and Suit E.L. Konigsborg 1993
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She wrote a list of words: falcon, tercel, familiar, hood.
T-Backs, T-shirts, Coat, and Suit E.L. Konigsborg 1993
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To Tyler a tercel spelled with a small t was a male falcon, a kind of hawk, that people train to kill prey.
T-Backs, T-shirts, Coat, and Suit E.L. Konigsborg 1993
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She wrote a list of words: falcon, tercel, familiar, hood.
T-Backs, T-shirts, Coat, and Suit E.L. Konigsborg 1993
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Whilst the lady yet wondered upon him, the tercel became a young and comely knight before her eyes.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Marie de France
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These he fastened firmly together, and set them securely within that window, by which the tercel would come to his lady.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Marie de France
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The falcon as the tercel, for all the ducks i the river: go to, go to.
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For their pleasure and sport Guivret caused to be taken with them rich falcons, both young and moulted, many a tercel and sparrow-hawk, and many a setter and greyhound.
Four Arthurian Romances de Troyes Chr��tien 1914
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