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Definition of Tercel
1. Noun. Male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon.
Definition of Tercel
1. n. See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel.
Definition of Tercel
1. Noun. A male hawk or falcon, used in falconry. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tercel
1. a male falcon [n -S] - See also: falcon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tercel
Literary usage of Tercel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"I marvel what blood thou art— neither Englander nor Scot — Hah nor flesh. Marry,
out upon I her. foul kite, that would fain be a tercel ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"A corruption of tercel-gentle by a double ... (1) tercel, erroneously supposed to be
... tercel ..."
3. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer (1898)
"Another tercel egle spak anoon, Of lower kynde, and seyde, ' That shal not be !
450 I love hir bet than ye do, by Seynt John I Or alté leste I love as wel ..."
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