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/ˈdʒɜːfɔːlkən/ · noun
(obsolete) Any large falcon, especially as used to fly at herons..
For I obſerve, that all vvomen of your condition are like the vvomen of the Play-houſe, ſtill Piquing at each other, vvho ſhall go the beſt Dreſt, and in the Richeſt Habits: till you vvork up one another by your high flying, as the Heron and Jerfalcon do.
[T]he usurper Buljan ordered that his sukkah be erected on the donjon's roof, with its […] relative nearness to the stars, among which his sky-worshiping and uncircumcised ancestors still hunted with infallible gyrfalcons for celestial game.
Use gyrfalcon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gyrfalcon means (obsolete) Any large falcon, especially as used to fly at herons..
Common synonyms include gerfalcon, falco rusticolus.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
For I obſerve, that all vvomen of your condition are like the vvomen of the Play-houſe, ſtill Piquing at each other, vvho ſhall go the beſt Dreſt, and in the Richeſt Habits: till you vvork up one another by your high flying, as the Heron and Jerfalcon do.
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