Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that breeds and trains falcons.
  • noun One that hunts with falcons.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A person who breeds and trains hawks for taking game; also, one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.

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

  • noun A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.

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

  • noun A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey for taking birds or game.
  • noun One who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French faulconnier, fauconnier, from faulcon ("falcon").

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Examples

  • There's a reason for this; becoming a licensed falconer is a two-year process, involving an apprenticeship, tests, and many other requirements.

    Photo Gallery: Deputy Editor Anthony Licata Goes Hunting with Hawks 2006

  • "The falconer is a professor of something, so both are possibilities..."

    Godzilla, Vampires, and Moby Goshawk? 2007

  • 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

  • Michael M. Phillips/The Wall Street Journal Mr. Graves, right, heads out to check the snare lines at Bagram Airfield with interpreter Mohammed Ashraf, left, and Mohammed Arif, an Afghan falconer and trapper.

    Battling Afghan Hares and Hamsters 2011

  • The film, which is everywhere is supposed to be by by the late Felix Rodriguez y Fuentes, a Spanish naturalist and falconer, for a TV series (maybe in the seventies?)

    Eagle Predation 2009

  • Dr. William Cornatzer, a dermatologist and falconer, saw a presentation about the potential dangers of lead at a board meeting of the Peregrine Fund, a group devoted to conserving birds of prey.

    Lead Ammuntion in the news again 2009

  • The film, which is everywhere is supposed to be by by the late Felix Rodriguez y Fuentes, a Spanish naturalist and falconer, for a TV series (maybe in the seventies?)

    Eagle Predation 2009

  • Mr. Graves's assistant is a bearded Afghan falconer, 49-year-old Mohammed Arif, who was a mujahedeen fighter in the 1980s when Bagram was a Soviet base.

    In Afghanistan, the War on Jirds Is Actually Going Pretty Well Michael M. Phillips 2011

  • The film, which is everywhere is supposed to be by by the late Felix Rodriguez y Fuentes, a Spanish naturalist and falconer, for a TV series (maybe in the seventies?)

    Eagle Predation 2009

  • The film, which is everywhere is supposed to be by by the late Felix Rodriguez y Fuentes, a Spanish naturalist and falconer, for a TV series (maybe in the seventies?)

    Eagle Predation 2009

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