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Answer for the clue "Swift falcon ", 9 letters:
peregrine

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry [syn: peregrine falcon , Falco peregrinus ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also peregrin , type of falcon, 1550s, short for peregrine falcon (late 14c.), from Old French faulcon pelerin (mid-13c.), from Medieval Latin falco peregrinus , from Latin peregrinus "coming from foreign parts" (see peregrination ). Sense may have been ...

Usage examples of peregrine.

Had Brewster been a botanist, he would have known there was no record of any such plant as a peregrine bush.

CHAPTER TEN For a moment that seemed to hang in eternity, Brewster stared at Mick, standing there just a couple of feet or so inside the open doorway with his peregrine bush on a leash, and thought that he was joking.

The boats were armed, and Peregrine and Scriber were coming from very much the wrong direction.

He looked disdainfully at Scriber and Peregrine, as if they were to blame for not performing surgery aboard the twinhull.

Emperor needs Mist, because with Staniel on the throne, only Peregrine manor will keep you from taking over Awia.

Young Sir Peregrine yawned again, and observed that the new pair of wheelers, put in at Newark, were good-sized strengthy beasts, very different from the last pair, which had both of them been touched in the wind.

Peregrine had driven out to Worthing earlier in the day, and was not yet back, but both the ladies were at home, and while Mrs.

I can only trust that it may have befallen Tyler, whose task was undoubtedly to have overpowered Peregrine at a convenient moment during his drive to Worthing, and to have handed him over to the captain of that vessel.

Peregrine, who had driven back from Worthing so early on purpose to wish his sister many happy returns of her birthday.

Peregrine because Ata has something to discuss with me about our daughter.

I saw him, he was preparing to race to Peregrine before Ata could catch him.

Peregrine, is what Brummell would describe as the hot, intoxicating liquor so much drunk by the lower orders.

Peregrine is set on tying himself down to a family of counterjumpers, there is nothing we can do.

Peregrine is the next-fastest thing we have that packs significant firepower, besides the Jayhawk and the Ariel itself.

It was a midwing monoplane, the slender fuselage just big enough for pilot, fuel, and the five cannon, slung between two huge H-form 24 cylinder Atlantis Peregrine turbocharged engines in sleek cowlings.