Definition of Ostreger

1. one who keeps goshawks [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostreger

ostracoderms
ostracodes
ostracods
ostracoid
ostracoidea
ostracoids
ostracon
ostracum
ostraka
ostrakon
ostrasize
ostrea
ostreaceous
ostreaculture
ostreaphile
ostreger (current term)
ostregers
ostreolith
ostreoliths
ostreophagist
ostreophagists
ostreotoxism
ostrich
ostrich fern
ostriches
ostrichism
ostrichlike
ostricization
ostricize
ostrisize

Literary usage of Ostreger

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ovingdean Grange: A Tale of the South Downs by William Harrison Ainsworth (1882)
"... the falconer (or ostreger, as he preferred to be styled), was as gallant-looking as the hardy birds on his fist. Clad in a doublet of Lincoln-green, ..."

2. Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses of the Past and Present Centuries: In by Thomas Henry Taunton (1888)
"ostreger led to past the distance-post, when Vespasian challenged, and, ... Marmite by Newcastle, three years, 6st, beating ostreger, five years, gst slbs, ..."

3. Bibliotheca Accipitraria: A Catalogue of Books Ancient and Modern Relating by James Edmund Harting (1891)
"Ray also has " ostreger."—" Summary of Falconry," 1678. PANNEL, s., the stomach or lower bowel of a hawk. PANTAS, s., a disease in hawks akin to asthma. ..."

4. Racing Calendar for (1865)
"Olmar, 9st. 1ft. (Snowden) .. 0 Mr G. Bryan's ch. c. ostreger, 9st. 3ft. ... (Withington) — 0 6 to 4 agst ostreger, 5 to 1 each agst Joker and Brahma, ..."

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