Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A male hawk used in falconry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Alternative form of tiercel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. See tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A male falcon; especially, the male of the peregrine falcon.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon
Etymologies
Examples
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All parker did was say “windy” means winds in the 3rd tercel.
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To get the upper tercel you had to consider winds from 3-9 mph.
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She wrote a list of words: falcon, tercel, familiar, hood.
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To Tyler a tercel spelled with a small t was a male falcon, a kind of hawk, that people train to kill prey.
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These he fastened firmly together, and set them securely within that window, by which the tercel would come to his lady.
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Whilst the lady yet wondered upon him, the tercel became a young and comely knight before her eyes.
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The falcon as the tercel, for all the ducks i the river: go to, go to.
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For their pleasure and sport Guivret caused to be taken with them rich falcons, both young and moulted, many a tercel and sparrow-hawk, and many a setter and greyhound.
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A numerous and gay band he brought two hundred of them in his suite; and there was none, whoever he be, but had a falcon or tercel, a merlin or a sparrow-hawk, or some precious pigeon-hawk, golden or mewed.
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Two wild hawks, beating up from the south, spied the pigeons, and pounced one upon the tercel with the dove in his talons, the other upon Clair de la Lune.
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