Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A keeper and trainer of goshawks.
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- noun obsolete A keeper of
goshawks . - noun falconry A
falconer who usesaccipiters for hunting.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The correct technical word for a shortwing- flyer is "austringer".
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The correct technical word for a shortwing- flyer is "austringer".
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I tried to go read After The Bar Closes and found my IP address blocked after commenting here and on austringer.net.
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He adds: When one sees an ill- formed man, with great big feet and long shapeless shanks, built like a trestle.... hump- shouldered and skew- backed, and one wants to mock him, one says, 'Look, what an austringer!'
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MATT: OK, here's a pic of one graceless austringer and his lowly hawk...
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MATT: OK, here's a pic of one graceless austringer and his lowly hawk...
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He adds: When one sees an ill- formed man, with great big feet and long shapeless shanks, built like a trestle.... hump- shouldered and skew- backed, and one wants to mock him, one says, 'Look, what an austringer!'
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We usually call a falconer who keeps that kind of hawk [the goshawk] an austringer.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
sionnach commented on the word austringer
keeper of goshawks.
February 9, 2008
bilby commented on the word austringer
There was a political party here who had a goshawk on their logo and now they don't. So what do you call someone who lets their goshawk escape?
October 11, 2022