Jess

Quick meaning: Jess is a noun meaning (falconry) A short strap fastened around the leg of a bird used in falconry, to which a leash may be fastened.

Meaning

(falconry) A short strap fastened around the leg of a bird used in falconry, to which a leash may be fastened.

More Meanings

1. (falconry) To fasten a strap around the leg of a hawk.
2. Pronunciation spelling of just.
3. Alternative form of jet (the mineral).
4. Alternative form of jet (the color).

Example Sentences

I am that cedar; shake me not too much; And you the eagles; soar ye ne’er so high, I have the jesses that will pull you down;

[…] If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings, I’ld whistle her off and let her down the wind, To pray at fortune.

If your hawk is bad-weathered, that is, will not fit on your fist when the wind blows, but hales, and beats, and hangs by the jeſſes, ſhe has an ill habit of the worſt kind.

Haukes haue about theyr legges gesses made of lether moste comonly, some of silke which should no lenger but that the knottes of them should appere in ye myddes of the left hande betwene the longe fynger and the leche fynger bicause the lewnes should be fastened to them with a payre of tyrettes, whiche tyrettes should rest vpon the lewnes and not vpon gesses, for hangyng and fastyng vpon trees when she fleyth […]

Word Forms

• jesses
• jessing
• jessed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jessie, son, please, gis, tether, thong.

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