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noun
A male hawk or falcon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: falconry, hobbies, hunting, lifestyle
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: tercel, tercelet
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hawk
History
From Middle English tercel, from Old French terçuel, from Late Latin tertiolus, the diminutive of Latin tertius (“third”). Sources disagree whether the connection is that the males of most species of birds of prey favoured in falconry are smaller than the females by about a third, or whether it refers to the supposition that only one egg in three yields a male.
Across languages
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