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Definition of Falconers
1. falconer [n] - See also: falconer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Falconers
Literary usage of Falconers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Falconry: Its Claims, History, and Practice by Gage Earle Freeman, Francis Henry Salvin (1859)
"But for my own part, I half suspect that the old falconers were not very ...
They lay themselves open * The old falconers certainly seem to be guilty of ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"And falconers hold the ready hawk; And foresters, in Greenwood trim, 40 She could
not glide along the air Lead in the leash ;he ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"Several leading chiefs and native gentlemen keep a large number of hawks, and an
establishment of trained falconers. History.—Few Districts in India can ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Henry Charles Howard Suffolk, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo (1897)
"But about 1750 we find Lord Orford practising falconry in the highest style, with
the aid, however, of Dutch falconers instead of the old English names. ..."
5. The Art and Practice of Hawking by Edward Blair Michell (1900)
"CHAPTER XIII HOME LIFE T)ROBABLY the commonest fault in young falconers of JL
the modern school is that of keeping too many hawks. ..."
6. Constantinople, Old and New by Harrison Griswold Dwight (1915)
"The heart of The Street of the Falconers the town lies in an irregular amphitheatre
which twists back from the Great Harbour. ..."
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