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Answer for the clue "Gander : goose :: tercel : ___ ", 6 letters:
falcon

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Falcon was a transactional storage engine being developed for the MySQL relational database management system . Development was stopped after Oracle purchased MySQL. It was based on the Netfrastructure database engine. Falcon was designed to take advantage ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. hunt with falcons; "The Arabs like to falcon in the desert"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., faucon , from Old French faucon "falcon" (12c.), from Late Latin falconem (nominative falco ) "falcon" (source also of Old Spanish falcon , Portuguese falcão , Italian falcone , Old High German falcho , German Falke , Dutch valk ), probably from ...

Usage examples of falcon.

The falcon bated again, thrashing furious wings, and Romilly struggled to maintain the sense of herself, not merging into the terror and fury of the angry bird, at the same time trying to send out waves of calm.

He was very proud of his falcons, and seeing them, talons gripped around wooden perches spiked into the sand or around the leather-gauntleted arms of their keepers, I found myself glancing at Whitaker, noticing the same quick, predatory look, the same sharp, beaky features.

Still engaged with the first man, he avoided a lunge from Carabin and then, with the flashing swoop of a falcon, was away and entirely clear of Carabin.

I waited until his patrol car was at the road before I drove to the newspaper and the busy, busy typing of Cece Dee Falcon, society editor.

The hoop was fastened with straps to his shoulders and around the edge of the circler sat three hooded falcons fitted with tinkling bells.

She wished to accustom two young eyases to the hood, and to try the mettle of a new Norway falcon.

In it, a master showed a supposed pupil how to train dogs and falcons, lay traps, recognise a stag by its fumets, and a fox or a wolf by footprints.

Caucasian hawks, Babylonian sakers, German gerfalcons, and pilgrim falcons captured on the cliffs edging the cold seas, in distant lands.

Also, the Khakhan, as usual in this season, had two or three brace of white gerfalcons riding on the sideboards of his carriage, and the whole procession would have to halt whenever we started some game that he wished to fly the falcons at.

He was flying again, going on trips up north and out west to photograph birds he never had before, the marbled godwit, the prairie falcon.

And it did so increase in mee more and more, that I knew not wherewithal I might bridle and restraine my selfe from catching of one of them, like an eager and hotte Falcon comming downe out of the ayre, vpon a couie of Partriges.

When the falcons are hunting the hubara we shall have to follow on foot, and boots protect the ankles and legs from snakes and scorpions.

The falcons started to screech, sensing freedom, and the subject of hubara meat and its desirability was dropped.

She had told that the falcons could kill up to eight or nine times in one day, but as Nadia explained, Raschid thought it unfair to take so much game when they were merely hunting for pleasure, so he normally restricted his bag to two or three hubara per falcon.

If only Lowie could get in touch with the Millennium Falcon, speak to his uncle, he could explain everything directly.