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Cord used in falconry
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creance
Word definitions for creance in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) faith; belief; creed 2 (context falconry English) A long leash, or lightweight cord used to prevent escape of a hawk during training flights. vb. (context obsolete transitive English) To get on credit; to borrow.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A creance is a long light cord used to tether a flying hawk or falcon during training in falconry . They are used both when the bird is young, and when the bird has been taken out of the aviary for a moult or other reasons. The creance itself is thin, designed ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Creance \Cre"ance\ (kr[=e]"ans), v. i. & t. To get on credit; to borrow. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Usage examples of creance.
She had been taken outside enough times on a creance to know all the places where escape might be possible.
Mais plus les imputations dirigees contre elle etaient vraisemblables, plus la creance accordee a ces imputations etait caracteristique, et attestait la ruine morale de la monarchie.
Barrick go, afraid that if she did he would somehow fly away like that half-tamed pigeonhawk she had lost when its creance snapped and it had gone spiral-mg out from her, never to return.
Now went this merchant fast and busily About his need, and buyed and creanced.