Tiercel

Quick meaning: Tiercel is a noun meaning (falconry) A male hawk or falcon.

Meaning

(falconry) A male hawk or falcon.

Example Sentences

He is a tiercel, lean and long and supple-winged, the first of the year.

In this wise, the glossy bright-eyed kestrel, whom tiercels’ training could not reclaim, shook off silver bells, and velvet hood, and broidered jesses; and fled away—to consort, henceforward for evermore, with gleds, and hawks, and such birds of prey as make their nests deep in Bohemian forests, or in the desolate places of the Wilderness that girdles the frontier of the reputable world.

Word Forms

• tiercels

Synonyms for tiercel

Depending on context, synonyms include tarse, tercelet, tercel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tercelet, tercel, falcon, tassell, career, falconer.

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