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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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.
sionnach commented on the word austringer
keeper of goshawks.
February 9, 2008