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gyrfalcon
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Word definitions for gyrfalcon in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gyrfalcon \Gyr"fal`con\ (j[~e]r"f[add]`k'n), n. [OE. gerfaucon, OF. gerfaucon, LL. gyrofalco, perh. fr. L. gyrus circle + falco falcon, and named from its circling flight; or cf. E. gier-eagle. See Gyre , n., Falcon .] (Zo["o]l.) One of several species ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The gyrfalcon is the largest of the falcon species.. Gyrfalcon may also refer to: Gyrfalcon Islands , an uninhabited island group in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada Gerfalcon (novel) , a fantasy novel by Leslie Barringer
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) Any large falcon, especially as used to fly at herons. 2 ''Falco rusticolus'', a large bird of prey that breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also gerfalcon , c.1200, from Old French girfauc "large northern falcon," probably from Frankish, from Proto-Germanic *ger (source of Old High German gir "vulture") + Latin falco "hawk" (see falcon ). Folk etymology connects it with Latin gyrus (see gyre ...
Usage examples of gyrfalcon.
Although claiming no title higher than Lady, Melina also brought with her the prestige of the Shield name and membership within the House of the Gyrfalcon for her children.
My mother is a Shield of House Gyrfalcon, and so outranks your Wellward mother.
It was a gyrfalcon, as was to be expected, its plumage as black as night.
Kestrel may not be as prestigious a house as that of the Peregrine or the Gyrfalcon, but it is as old and very respected.
Lord Newell, son of the duke of House Gyrfalcon, a third son, unlikely to ever be the heir.
The representative for House Goshawk looked vaguely disappointed, but those for Peregrine, Kestrel, and Gyrfalcon were quite alert.
Moreover, Melina is from House Gyrfalcon, first among the Great Houses.
House Gyrfalcon, traveled across the White Water River into our neighboring country of New Kelvin in company with Baron Wain Endbrook of the Kingdom of the Isles.
He suspected that King Tedric knew just badly House Gyrfalcon needed to prove itself.
She mentioned the importance of House Gyrfalcon, into which Melina had been born, and explained in greater detail than she would have thought necessary about inherited positions.
I have written to my brother, Duke Gyrfalcon, to request that he take in some of these.
It was an enormous snow-white mutation derived from an arctic gyrfalcon the bird that indeed was reserved for kings.
And the gyrfalcon derivative he was carrying was a very sophisticated job of bioengineering.
Her father would have the pleasure of working the gyrfalcon, and she was eager to see it work.
Her father released the gyrfalcon, and it spread its wide wings and rose swiftly to the hunt.