Crossword clues for tiercel
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tiercel \Tier"cel\, Tiercelet \Tierce"let\, n. [OE. tercel,
tercelet, F. tiercelet, a dim. of (assumed) tiercel, or LL.
tertiolus, dim. fr. L. tertius the third; -- so called,
according to some, because every third bird in the nest is a
male, or, according to others, because the male is the third
part less than female. Cf. Tercel.] (Falconry)
The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the
male of the goshawk.
--Encyc. Brit.
Wiktionary
n. A male hawk or falcon, used in falconry.
WordNet
Usage examples of "tiercel".
For an instant Tiercel stood staring at the body, frozen with shock and horror.
At a run, she led Tiercel to the rear, where the cellar door with its flight of long, dark steps led downward from the kitchen.
Amahli held tightly to Tiercel with one hand and felt her way along the wall with the other, trying to remember the way the vaults were laid out.
Not everyone is able to tame a peregrine falcon or goshawk tiercel as you did.
They entered the well-kept mews to where the tiercel goshawk sat on his perch, greeting them with a cry of welcome, if one might call such a noise that.
Though the tiercel goshawk was a third smaller than the female, it was not a bird to be careless around.
She did have a sweet, well-behaved tiercel that she used for such occasions.
Smaller than Dawnfire - as was only appropriate for a tiercel - and with nowhere near her power, he still hoped that in this form she would see that he was trying to meet her halfway.
Was it not exactly like a lovesick tiercel to court a mate with fancy flying?
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.
The splendid Norway tiercel, when cast free, instead of ringing up the sky, returned to its perch after a short wavering flight, as if it sought the protection of man.
Tayledras-bred forestgyres, largest of all the bondbirds other than the eagles, were easily a match for many wild tiercel eagles in size, and fully capable of killing men.
Insect threat, as blue-grey silhouettes moved across the room, doubling when bright Tiercel, the morning star, rose.
A special shelf, and the most beautiful of all, held the hoods: very old cracked rufter hoods which had been made for birds before Kay was born, tiny hoods for the merlins, small hoods for tiercels, splendid new hoods which had been knocked up to pass away the long winter evenings.
He succeeded in removing Tadrith from his right leg, but Keenath, being the older of the two tiercels, was more stubborn.