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Definition of Falconry
1. Noun. The art of training falcons to hunt and return.
Generic synonyms: Art, Artistry, Prowess
Derivative terms: Falcon
Definition of Falconry
1. n. The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.
Definition of Falconry
1. Noun. The sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey, especially falcons and hawks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Falconry
1. the sport of hunting with falcons [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Falconry
Literary usage of Falconry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1875)
"falconry in the British Isles. By Francis Henry Salvin and William Brodrick. ...
The manly and unselfish sport of falconry, in which all who witnessed it ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"falconry IN AMERICA. A FEW years ago, I was living on a ./JL large hacienda in
Chile, about thirty miles south of Santiago. Some fair partridge-shooting was ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Henry Charles Howard Suffolk, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo (1897)
"This would establish the fact that falconry existed as early as 1200 BC Colonel
... Thus Pliny on falconry in his day ; and if it does not quite well accord ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"falconry is a very old amusement in Europe and Asia. In the middle ages, it was
the favorite sport of princes and nobles ; and, as ladies could engage in it ..."
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