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lanner

Lanier \Lan"ier\, n. [F. lani[`e]re. See Lanyard.] [Written also lanner, lanyer.]

  1. A thong of leather; a whip lash. [Prov. Eng.]
    --Halliwell.

  2. A strap used to fasten together parts of armor, to hold the shield by, and the like.
    --Fairholt.

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lanner

n. the lanner falcon, ''Falco biarmicus''

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Usage examples of "lanner".

Otho Lanners, from whom she had learned the art, could do it more effectively.

Ralph had discovered a lanner falcon's nest on the top ledge of a rocky kopje five miles out on the Cape road.

We have also the lanner and the lanneret, the tersel and the goshawk, the musket and the sparhawk, the jack and the hobby, and finally some (though very few) marleons.