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falconry
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Often they're sold to rich businessmen in the Middle East, where falconry is a popular sport. ▪ The days of our falconry course had a set pattern. ▪ The larger falcons are among the birds of prey most favoured for the sport of ...
Wikipedia
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Falconry is the hunting of wild quarry in its natural state and habitat by means of a trained bird of prey . There are two traditional terms used to describe a person involved in falconry: a falconer flies a falcon ; an austringer ( German origin) flies ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The sport of hunting by using trained bird of prey, especially falcons and hawks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Falconry \Fal"con*ry\, n. [Cf. F. fauconnerie. See Falcon .] The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game. The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the art of training falcons to hunt and return
Usage examples of falconry.
Khumun and I have had some success with retraining the dragons that are currently here using falconry techniques.
I would have them shipped back to Palermo to restock the Royal Falconry - the King liked to use these swift-flighted birds for his goshawks.
Sports buffs replaced baseball with falconry and polo in their Sunday afternoon television repertoire, and the big Thanksgiving game changed from football to soccer.
AndI repeated that I was not so maidenminded as formerly but as a gesture in the direction of custom and tradition and honoring the old ways I would accept would reluctantly accept ex abundantia one with red hair and one with hair black as carbon and one with brown soft hair and one blond as corntassel nil consuetudine majus and one with two breasts and one who excelled in the art of falconry and one who was a philosopher and one who was by nature sad in the cast of her mind et cetera et cetera et cetera total of forty-four for Papsmearing that Papsday.
There were two little merlins which had only just been taken up from hacking, an old peregrine who was not much use in this wooded country but who was kept for appearances, a kestrel on which the boys had learned the rudiments of falconry, a spar-hawk which Sir Ector was kind enough to keep for the parson, and, caged off in a special apartment of his own at the far end, there was the tiercel goshawk Cully.
There is the same variety of character, the same diversity of story, the same copiousness of incident, the same research into costume, the same display of heraldry, falconry, minstrelsy, scenery, monkery, witchery, devilry, robbery, poachery, piracy, fishery, gipsy-astrology, demonology, architecture, fortification, castrametation, navigation.
For hundreds of years the falconers had simply got on with the important things, like falconry, which needed a lot of training, and left the kinging to amateurs.
There were two little merlins which had only just been taken up from hacking, an old peregrine who was not much use in this wooded country but who was kept for appearances, a kestrel on which the boys had learned the rudiments of falconry, a spar-hawk which Sir Ector was kind enough to keep for the parson, and, caged off in a special apartment of his own at the far end, there was the tiercel goshawk Cully.
His graduate training in the medieval area had brought him in touch with falconry, and he recognized the bird she was carrying as a peregrine falcon-a magnificent one.