Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small worm generally found in the thin skin about the reins of hawks. See
filander .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A disease of hawks. See
filanders .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
disease ofhawks ;filanders .
Etymologies
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back + worm
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Examples
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Indian falcon is sick of the backworm, and therefore, if you will be so bountiful to give another falcon, I will provide you a running gelding. '
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