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

  • noun A Eurasian falcon (Falco cherrug) having brown plumage and often trained for falconry.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English sacre, from Old French, from Arabic ṣaqr, probably from Turkic *soŋqur, falcon.]

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