The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brancher \Branch"er\, n.
That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.
(Falconry) A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.
Wiktionary
n. 1 That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions. 2 (context falconry English) A young owl or other raptor that is just too young to fly. So called because of the bird still clinging to the branches while practising flying movements with the wings.
Usage examples of "brancher".
She glared at him just as she would have glared at a foolish young brancher for acting like one of the fledglings.
Skandranon watching Zhaneel from afar like a lovesick brancher in a juvenile infatuation.
Some branchers were present as well on the far side of the system, though the skymounts and sylphs kept their distance from those.
By your survival I take it you have effective weapons against the branchers?
What if they wish to chase sailseeds or dive in nebulae when we tell them to attack branchers?
But a few months ago, a battle with branchers had taken all the elder Se’ha males, catapulting that tiresome whelp Se’hraqua to a status he was ill-prepared for.
I must now take your husband’s ship before he gets it destroyed by the branchers.
The jellies tried to break and run, but the branchers were too fast for them, swooping around them in a tetrahedral englobement, penning them in.
But they only succeeded in splitting two of the branchers into smaller units, which resumed their attack after mere seconds.
Titan could stop the branchers with its graviton beam, if only it could reach the jellies.
Riker watched as the jellies struck at the branchers, holding the beams on them until they began to tremble.
If the jellies had sustained their attacks, then the branchers would have been completely destroyed.
I’ve just given you a way to do the same with both the star-jellies and the branchers.
Trying to tame branchers, and having to hold the hands of live skymounts at the same time…it is overcomplicated.
Imagine how many of your kin would still be here today if we could have sent the branchers against the harvester.