tiercel

Definitions

A male hawk or falcon.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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

CEFR level