Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A male falcon or hawk, especially a peregrine falcon or gyrfalcon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A male falcon; especially, the male of the peregrine falcon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
tiercel . Called alsotarsel ,tassel .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
tiercel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To get the upper tercel you had to consider winds from 3-9 mph.
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All parker did was say “windy” means winds in the 3rd tercel.
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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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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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She wrote a list of words: falcon, tercel, familiar, hood.
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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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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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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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