Crossword clues for gerfalcon
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 and varieties of large Arctic falcons, esp. Falco rusticolus and the white species Falco Islandicus, both of which are circumpolar. The black and the gray are varieties of the former. See Illust. of Accipiter.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of gyrfalcon English)
WordNet
n. large and rare arctic falcon having white and dark color phases [syn: gyrfalcon, Falco rusticolus]
Wikipedia
Gerfalcon is a fantasy novel by Leslie Barringer, the first book in his three volume Neustrian Cycle. It is set around the fourteenth century in an alternate medieval France called Neustria (historically an early division of the Frankish kingdom). The book was first published in 1927 by Heinemann in the United Kingdom and Doubleday in the United States. Its significance was recognized by its republication in 1973 by Tom Stacey in the UK and in March, 1976 by the Newcastle Publishing Company in the US, as the seventh volume of its celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series. This Newcastle edition was reprinted twice, once by Newcastle itself in 1977 and once by Borgo Press in 1980.
Chapter headings of the 1927 edition:
- Shadows at Sanctbastre.
- Tourney at Belsaunt.
- The moors of Nordenay.
- The Singing Stones of Hastain.
- The hold above Alanol.
- Face Campscapel face death.
- The forest of Honoy.
- Parley at Montenair.
- Assay towards Saulte.
- Street of Anvils.
- A viscount comes home.
- Raoul's day.
- The marshes of Marckmont.
- The crags of Ger.
Usage examples of "gerfalcon".
I stand alone on the Gerfalcon Tower, looking south over moonlit fields, and wonder how you fare.
That is, each is esteemed for a special virtue or faculty, as the large gerfalcon for the chase of heron, the smaller goshawk for the chase of river fowl.
Gore, and none other than Queen Morgan le Fay, the famous enchantress, who for loss of her gerfalcon was lightly sending Sir Dinar to his ruin.
In the daytime he would watch his gerfalcon against the deep blue of the sky, but at night he drew the shades and would not venture out.
With a sudden, furious motion, he cast off the gerfalcon, the leash slipping through the jesses.
All I could see was the empty sky, and the gerfalcon circling there on splendid wings.
Emperor was stretched on a couch of dyed lion skins, and a gerfalcon perched upon his wrist.
One of the pages carried two gerfalcons upon a perch, the other a hunting-horn, which he blew with a careless note at twenty paces from the castle.
Caucasian hawks, Babylonian sakers, German gerfalcons, and pilgrim falcons captured on the cliffs edging the cold seas, in distant lands.
Prussian gerfalcons sat, hooded and jesseled, as silent and motionless as the royal fowler who stood beside them.
When Kubilai rode out in a hauda or his chariot, he always had two or more of his milk-white gerfalcons perched on its rim and would start them at sight of small game running or flying.
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.
Then the king became impatient for there were other things to think about: there was just time to go to the mews to inspect one of his favorite gerfalcons, who was ailing, before he had to receive an emissary from Burgundy.
Malambruno is satisfied in every way, the faces of the duennas are once more smooth and clean, King Clavijo and Queen Antonomasia have been restored to their former state, and as soon as the squirely flogging shall have been completed, the white dove shall be set free of the annoying gerfalcons that persecute it and shall return to the arms of its beloved mate.
One of the pages carried two gerfalcons upon a perch, the other a hunting-horn, which he blew with a careless note at twenty paces from the castle.