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Answer for the clue "Male hawk (var.) ", 6 letters:
tercel

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Word definitions for tercel in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (alternative form of tiercel English) 2 (alternative form of terzel English) 3 (alternative form of tassel English) 4 (alternative form of tassell English)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon [syn: tiercel , tercelet ]

Usage examples of tercel.

You naughty boy, I would fly the tercel at a hern, but you and Hasting never give a poor girl a chance, and we of Kitel must content ourselves with duck or partridge.

The tercel before him lay running the links of the halter through his talons, eyeing the crescent-moon shaped browpiece with interest.

Lell wheeled unsteadily, spied the gryphon tercel floating half submerged in the clear surface of the mere, which was littered with milkwood flowers, she saw.

The males are tercels, an old world meaning "a third smaller", Terran birds of prey.