Eyass
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Eyass is a noun meaning (falconry) Alternative form of eyas.
Meaning
(falconry) Alternative form of eyas.
Example Sentences
When Roland Græme was a youth about seventeen years of age, he chanced one summer morning to descend to the mew in which Sir Halbert Glendinning kept his hawks, in order to superintend the training of an eyass, or young hawk, which he himself, at the imminent risk of neck and limbs, had taken from a celebrated eyrie in the neighbourhood, called Gledscraig.
Word Forms
- eyasses
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include eirie, eyry, jerfalcon, yard-fowl, gerfalcon, fledgeling.
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