point

→ Cantonese: point

→ Indonesian: poin

→ Japanese: ポイント (pointo)

→ Korean: 포인트 (pointeu)

From Middle English poynt, from Old French point m (“dot; minute amount”), from Latin pūnctum (“a hole punched in; a point, puncture”), substantive use of pūnctus m, perfect passive participle of pungō (“I prick, punch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“prick, punch”)); alternatively, from Old French pointe f (“sharp tip”), from Latin pūncta f (past participle). Displaced native Middle English ord (“point”), from Old English ord (“point”). Doublet of pointe, punctum, punt, and punto.

kärki

position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force

decimal point

not used when reading decimal fractions aloud

(falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.


cast

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kas-
Proto-Germanic *kastōną
Old Norse kastabor.
Middle English casten
English cast
From Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta (“to throw, cast, overturn”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), of unknown origin.
Cognate with Scots cast (“to cast, throw”), Danish kaste (“to throw”), Swedish kasta (“to throw, cast, fling, toss, discard”), Icelandic kasta (“to pitch, toss”). In the sense of "flinging", displaced native warp.
The senses relating to broadcasting are based on that same term; compare -cast.

cog

As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / An an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […]

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Louis XIV was keen, employing a total hawking personnel of 175 and adding a fourth cast of gyrfalcons to hunt hares in 1682 […].

2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2013, page 395:

(hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.


hack

(falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.


hack

en-verb

hack (third-person singular simple present hacks, present participle hacking, simple past and past participle hacked)

hacks (present singular third-person)
hacking (participle present)
hacked (participle past)
hacked (past)

(falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.


man

man (third-person singular simple present mans, present participle manning, simple past and past participle manned)

mans (present singular third-person)
manning (participle present)
manned (participle past)
manned (past)

From Middle English mannen, from Old English mannian, ġemannian (“to man, supply with men, populate, garrison”), from mann (“human being, man”).
cognates
* Dutch bemannen (“to man”)
* German bemannen (“to man”)
* Danish bemande (“to man”)
* Swedish bemanna (“to man”)
* Icelandic manna (“to supply with men, man”).

cog

(transitive, obsolete, chiefly falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.


train

en-noun

train (countable and uncountable, plural trains)

From Middle English trayne (“treachery”), from Anglo-Norman traine, Middle French traïne, from traïr (“to betray”).

(countable, obsolete, falconry) A live bird, handicapped or disabled in some way, provided for a young hawk to kill as training or enticement.


weather

en-verb

weather (third-person singular simple present weathers, present participle weathering, simple past and past participle weathered)

weathers (present singular third-person)
weathering (participle present)
weathered (participle past)
weathered (past)

From Middle English weder, wedir, from Old English weder, from Proto-West Germanic *wedr, from Proto-Germanic *wedrą, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰrom (=*we-dʰrom), from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Weeder, West Frisian waar, Dutch weer, Low German Weder, German Wetter, Danish vejr, Swedish väder, Norwegian Bokmål vær, Norwegian Nynorsk vêr, Icelandic veður; also more distantly related to Russian вёдро (vjódro, “fair weather”) and perhaps Albanian vrëndë (“light rain”).
Other cognates include Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”).

cog

If your hawk is bad-weathered, that is, will not fit on your fist when the wind blows, but hales, and beats, and hangs by the jeſſes, ſhe has an ill habit of the worſt kind.

1773, James Campbell, A Treatise on modern faulconry:

(falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.


sparrowhawk

From Middle English sparhauk, sperhauk, from Old English spearhafoc, spearhabuc (“sparrow-hawk”), from Proto-West Germanic *sparwahabuk, from Proto-Germanic *sparwahabukaz, equivalent to sparrow + hawk. Cognate with Danish spurvehøg (“sparrowhawk”), Swedish sparvhök (“sparrowhawk”), Icelandic sparrhaukur (“sparrowhawk”).

Eurasian sparrowhawk
Eurasian sparrowhawk

Accipiter nisus
Accipiter nisus#Translingual

A Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds.

(falconry) A female such bird, a male being a musket.


rake

en-verb

rake (third-person singular simple present rakes, present participle raking, simple past and past participle raked)

rakes (present singular third-person)
raking (participle present)
raked (participle past)
raked (past)

The verb is derived from Middle English raken (“to go, proceed; to move quickly, hasten, rush; to roam, wander”) [and other forms], from Old English racian (“to go forward, move, run; to hasten; to take a course or direction; to control, direct, govern, rule”), from Proto-West Germanic *rakōn (“to take a course or direction; to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten; to direct oneself”).
cognates
The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch rāken (“to acquire; to hit (not miss); to reach; to touch”) (modern Dutch raken (“to hit (not miss); to touch; to become”)), Middle Low German rāken, rōken (“to hit (not miss); to reach; to touch”), Old High German rahhōn (“to narrate, speak”), and probably Swedish raka (“to rush off”).
The noun is derived from the verb.

cog

(intransitive, falconry) Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.


falcon

From Middle English faucoun, falcon, faulcon, from Old French falcun, from Late Latin falcō (“falcon”), of Germanic origin, probably via Frankish *falkō (“falcon, hawk”), from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon”), from Proto-Indo-European *pol̑- (“pale”), from *pel- (“fallow”).
cognates
Cognate with Old English *fealca, fealcen (“falcon”), Dutch valk (“falcon, hawk”), German Falke (“falcon, hawk”), Norwegian and Swedish falk (“falcon”), Icelandic fálki (“falcon”), French faucon (“falcon”), Italian falco (“falcon”), Spanish halcón (“falcon”), Portuguese falcão (“falcon”), Latin falco (“falcon”), Lithuanian pálšas (“pale”), Latvian bāls (“pale”), Latgalian buolgs (“pale”). More at fallow.

(falconry) A female such bird, a male being a tiercel.


ring

en-verb

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past and past participle ringed)

rings (present singular third-person)
ringing (participle present)
ringed (participle past)
ringed (past)

From Middle English ryng, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of rank and rink.
cognates
* West Frisian ring
* Low German Ring
* Dutch ring
* German Ring
* Swedish ring
* Finnish rengas

[…] how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing / In his ecstacy!

1877 May 30, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 29:


passage

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).

Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.

(falconry, attributive) Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.


lune

And thenne was he ware of a Faucon came fleynge ouer his hede toward an hyghe elme / and longe lunys aboute her feet / and she flewe vnto the elme to take her perche / the lunys ouer cast aboute a bough / And whanne she wold haue taken her flyghte / she henge by the legges fast / and syre launcelot sawe how he henge

1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xvj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:


clap

From Middle English clappen, from Old English clæppan, from Proto-Germanic *klappōną. Cognate with Dutch klappen, Icelandic klappa, Faroese klappa and Danish klappe.

(falconry) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.


check

From Middle English chek, chekke, borrowed from Old French eschek, eschec, eschac, from Medieval Latin scaccus, borrowed from Arabic شَاه (šāh, “king or check at chess, shah”), borrowed from Classical Persian شَاه (šāh, “king”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ /šāh/), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /xšāyaθiya/, “king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáyati (“he rules, he has power over”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to gain power over, gain control over”). All of the English senses developed from the chess sense. Compare Saterland Frisian Schak, Schach, Dutch schaak, German Schach, Danish skak, Swedish schack, Icelandic skák, French échec, Italian scacco. See chess and shah (“king of Persia or Iran”), from the same source.

der

(falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds. [from 15th c.]

chek

falconry: forsaking by a hawk of its proper game


check

en-verb

check (third-person singular simple present checks, present participle checking, simple past and past participle checked)

checks (present singular third-person)
checking (participle present)
checked (participle past)
checked (past)

→ Brazilian Portuguese: checar

→ Cantonese: check

→ Finnish: tsekata

→ German: checken

→ Gulf Arabic: چيك (čayyak)

→ Hijazi Arabic: شَيَّك (šayyak)

→ Hungarian: csekkol

→ Russian: че́кать (čékatʹ)

→ Russian: че́кнуть (čéknutʹ)

→ Russian: проче́кать (pročékatʹ)

→ Spanish: chequear, checar (Mexico)

From Middle English chekken, partly from Old French eschequier and partly from the noun (see above).

check yourself before you wreck yourself

And like the haggard, check at every feather
 That comes before his eye.

c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

(falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.


timber

timber (third-person singular simple present timbers, present participle timbering, simple past and past participle timbered)

timbers (present singular third-person)
timbering (participle present)
timbered (participle past)
timbered (past)

From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm).
Cognates include Dutch timmer, Old High German zimbar (German Zimmer), Norwegian tømmer, Old Norse timbr, Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan, “to build”), Latin domus and Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos).

der

(falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.


slip

en-verb

slip (third-person singular simple present slips, present participle slipping, simple past and past participle slipped or (obsolete) slipt)

slips (present singular third-person)
slipping (participle present)
slipped (participle past)
slipped (past)
slipt (obsolete participle past)
slipt (obsolete past)

From Middle English slippen, probably from Middle Low German slippen. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”), or related to Proto-Germanic *slībaną (“to split”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian slipje (“to slip”), Dutch slippen (“to slip”), German Low German slippen, slupen (“to slip”), German schlüpfen (“to slip”).

der

Lucento slipped me like his greyhound.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

'Well, it was one morning early in the spring,' said Lars, 'that I started for Linderudsœter, where I slipped Rap, and he was soon in full cry and made the hillside ring.'

1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], translated by H. L. Brækstad, Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 78:

(transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.


imp

en-verb

imp (third-person singular simple present imps, present participle imping, simple past and past participle imped)

imps (present singular third-person)
imping (participle present)
imped (participle past)
imped (past)

From Middle English impen, ympen (“to plant; (figuratively) to bury; to graft; to add to, insert, put into, set in; to mend (a falcon’s feather) by attaching a new feather on to the broken stump”), from Old English impian, ġeimpian (“to graft”), from Proto-West Germanic *impōn (“to graft”), from Vulgar Latin *imputō (“to graft”), from Ancient Greek ἔμφῠτος (émphutos, “implanted; planted”), from ἐμφῠ́ω (emphúō, “to implant”, from ἐν- (en-, prefix meaning ‘in’) + φῠ́ω (phúō, “to bring forth, produce; to grow”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear; to become; to grow”))) + -τος (-tos).

af

ultimately from Proto-Indo-European <i class="Latn mention" lang="ine-pro">*bʰuH-</i> (“to appear; to become; to grow”)

I have known feathers so imped that the eye could not discern the place of juncture, and it was difficult even to discover it by passing the thumb-nail down the shaft of the imped feather.

1900, E[dward] B[lair] Michell, “Accidents and Maladies”, in The Art and Practice of Hawking, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 229:

Bird rehabilitators borrow a trick from falconry with the age-old process of imping flight feathers on to a damaged bird.

2004, Roseann Tomko, Illinois Audubon, Wayne, Ill.: Illinois Audubon Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, column 1:

[page 246, column 1] Feather damage is a serious problem for any bird. […] Repairing or imping broken feathers is a very good option in these cases and may save months or even a year in captivity. […] [page 250, column 1] Note that a feather can usually only be imped once since it is very difficult or impossible to remove and then replace an imping needle from within a feather shaft after it has been glued in place.

2016, David E. Scott, “Feathers and Aging”, in Raptor Medicine, Surgery and Rehabilitation, 2nd edition, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Boston, Mass.: CABI, →ISBN, pages 246 and 250:

(falconry, veterinary medicine) To engraft (a feather) on to a broken feather in a bird's wing or tail to repair it; to engraft (feathers) on to a bird, or a bird's wing or tail.


stale

From Middle English stale (“bird used as a decoy”), probably from uncommon Anglo-Norman estale (“pigeon used to lure hawks”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic, probably *standaną (“to stand”). Compare Old English stælhran (“decoy reindeer”) and Northumbrian stællo (“catching fish”).

der

Like vnto the fowlers, that by their stales draw other birdes into their nets.

1579, Thomas North, “Sylla”, in Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, section 515:

A wife thats more then faire is like a stale, Or chanting whistle which brings birds to thrall.

1608, Ludovico Ariosto, translated by R. Tofte, Satyres, IV 56:

(falconry, hunting, obsolete) A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap.


wait on

en-verb

wait on (third-person singular simple present waits on, present participle waiting on, simple past and past participle waited on)

waits on (present singular third-person)
waiting on (participle present)
waited on (participle past)
waited on (past)

(falconry, of a hawk) To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung.


sue

sue (third-person singular simple present sues, present participle suing, simple past and past participle sued)

sues (present singular third-person)
suing (participle present)
sued (participle past)
sued (past)

From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) (modern French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit.

(transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).


block

→ Dutch: block

→ German: Block

→ Irish: bloc

→ Manx: block

→ Maori: poraka

→ Norwegian: blokk

→ Polish: blok

desctree

→ Russian: блок (blok)
→ Armenian: բլոկ (blok)
→ Yakut: блок (blok)

→ Spanish: block

→ Vietnamese: lốc

From Middle English blok (“log, stump, solid piece”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). Cognate with Old Frisian blok, Old Saxon blok, Old High German bloh, bloc (“block”), Old English bolca (“gangway of a ship, plank”), Old Norse bǫlkr (“divider, partition”). More at balk. See also bloc, bulk.

طَابُوقَة

substantial often approximately cuboid piece

թաղամաս

group of buildings demarcated by streets

A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.

(falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.

orsi

falconry: perch on which a bird of prey is kept


rebate

en-verb

rebate (third-person singular simple present rebates, present participle rebating, simple past and past participle rebated)

rebates (present singular third-person)
rebating (participle present)
rebated (participle past)
rebated (past)

From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate.

The ſecunde is rebate youre hawke: to yowre fyſt, ⁊ thatt is whan yowre hawke batith, the leeſt meuyng that ye can make with yowre fyſt ſhe will rebate ayen vppon yowre fyſt[.]

1486, Juliana Berners, Book of Saint Albans:

(intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate².


musket

First attested around 1210 as a surname, and later in the 1400s as a word for the sparrowhawk (Middle English forms: musket, muskett, muskete (“sparrow hawk”)), from Middle French mousquet, from Old Italian moschetto (a diminutive of mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca) used to refer initially to a sparrowhawk (given its small size or speckled appearance) and then a crossbow arrow. The name was subsequently adopted for a heavier, shoulder-fired version of an arquebus, adhering to a pattern of naming firearms and cannons after birds of prey and similar creatures (compare falcon, falconet), a sense which was also borrowed into French and then (around 1580) into English. Cognate to Spanish mosquete, Portuguese mosquete. Smoothbore firearms continued to be called muskets even as they switched from using matchlocks to flintlocks to percussion locks, but with the advent of rifled muskets, the word was finally displaced by rifle.

(falconry) A male Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus).


passenger

/ˈpæsɪnd͡ʒɚ/

/ˈpæsənd͡ʒɚ/

/ˈpæsɪnd͡ʒə/

/ˈpæsənd͡ʒə/

(falconry) A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year.


mews

From Mewes, the name of the royal stables at Charing Cross.

(falconry) A place where birds of prey are housed.


bate

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

bates (present singular third-person)
bating (participle present)
bated (participle past)
bated (past)

* Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun debate.
* Verb: From Middle English bate (“contention”), from Old French batre (French battre), from Latin battere.

The fiꝛſt is holde faſt at all timys, and ſpecially whan ſhe batith. It is calde batyng, for ſhe batith with hiꝛ ſelfe moſt oftyn cauſeles[.]

I am like a hawk , that bates , when I see occasion of service , but cannot fly because I am tied to another's fist

1600, Francis Bacon, letter to Queen Elizabeth, upon the sending of a new-year's gift:

(intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.

räpytellä

in falconry of a falcon: to flap the wings vigorously


mew

From Middle English mewe, mue, mwe, from Anglo-Norman mue, muwe, and Middle French mue (“shedding feathers; cage for moulting birds; prison”), from muer (“to moult”).

der

A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

(falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.

(falconry, in the plural) A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.


cadge

Possibly a corruption of cage, from Old French.

(falconry) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.


gleam

en-verb

gleam (third-person singular simple present gleams, present participle gleaming, simple past and past participle gleamed)

gleams (present singular third-person)
gleaming (participle present)
gleamed (participle past)
gleamed (past)

A variant of Middle English gleimen, gleym (“to smear; to make slimy or sticky; to fill up (the stomach); to nauseate; of a slimy or viscous substance: to be stuck together; (figuratively) to captivate, ensnare; to infect with heresy”) [and other forms], probably a blend of glet (“slimy or viscous matter produced by animals; mucus, phlegm; congestion of mucus or phlegm in the body; viscosity”), gleu (“substance used to stick things together, glue; viscous medicine made from plants”), etc. + Old Norse kleima (“to daub, smear”) (whence Old English clǣman (“to smear”)) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *klaimijaną (“to smear with clay, to mortar”), from *klaimaz (“clay; mortar”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y- (“to glue, stick; to smear”)).

der

Gleam, a term uſed after a hawk hath caſt and gleameth, or throweth up filth from her gorge.

1800, “Gleam”, in The Sportsman’s Dictionary; or, The Gentleman’s Companion: For Town and Country. […], 4th edition, London: […] G. G. and J. Robinson, […]; by R. Noble, […], →OCLC, column 1:

(intransitive, falconry, obsolete) Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge.


ruff

en-verb

ruff (third-person singular simple present ruffs, present participle ruffing, simple past and past participle ruffed)

ruffs (present singular third-person)
ruffing (participle present)
ruffed (participle past)
ruffed (past)

Clipping of ruffle, or possibly from rough.

Instantly the keen-eyed hawk "stooped," or descended, with a rushing swoop, and struck one of the birds with her claws, but without killing it, which is called "rifling," or "ruffing" it.

1888, Good Words, volume 29, London: Alexander Strahan and Co., →OCLC, page 616:

(transitive, falconry) Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.


slice

From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīzan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit.

der

(falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)


pelt

The noun is inherited from Middle English pelt (“skin of a sheep, especially without the wool”); further etymology uncertain, possibly:
* from Middle English pellet (“skin of an animal, especially a sheep”), from Anglo-Norman pelette, pellet, and Old French pelete, pelette (“thin layer, film, skin; epidermis; foreskin”), from pel (“skin; garment made of animal skin, pelisse”) (from Latin pellis (“animal skin, hide, pelt; leather; garment made of animal skin”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover; to wrap; hide; skin; cloth”)) + -ete (diminutive suffix); or
* from Late Latin peletta, pelleta, pelletta (“skin of an animal, especially a sheep”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* Norwegian Bokmål pels (“fur; fur coat”)
* Norwegian Nynorsk pels (“fur; fur coat”)

cog

If two [hawks] are flown they are certain to fell the game at once, and the falconer is always flurried by their violent propensity to crab over the "pelt."

1852, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “A Day with the Bashah”, in Falconry in the Valley of the Indus, London: John Van Voorst, […], →OCLC, page 60:

(falconry) The body of any quarry killed by a hawk; also, a dead bird given to a hawk for food.


hood

From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz (cognate with Saterland Frisian Houd, West Frisian/Dutch hoed, German Low German Hood, German Hut). Cognate with Proto-Iranian *xawdaH (“hat”) (compare Avestan 𐬑𐬂𐬛𐬀 (xåda), Old Persian 𐎧𐎢𐎭 (x-u-d /xaudā/)), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to cover”). More at hat.

kapuç

covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak

A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.

(falconry) A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.


career

Mid 16th century, from French carrière (“road; racecourse”), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carrāria based on Latin carrus (“wheeled vehicle”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”); alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan.


cope

en-verb

cope (third-person singular simple present copes, present participle coping, simple past and past participle coped)

copes (present singular third-person)
coping (participle present)
coped (participle past)
coped (past)
cope (infinitive)

From Middle English coupen, from Old French couper (“to strike, to cut”).

the beak and talons should be closely coped

1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports:

(falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.


lure

lore (some speakers with the pour–poor merger)

From Anglo-Norman lure, from Old French loirre (Modern French leurre), from Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-, perhaps ultimately related to *laþō (“invitation, calling”), or from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”). Compare English allure, also from Old French. Probably related to German Luder (“bait”).

My Faulcon now is ſharpe and paſſing emptie, / And til ſhe ſtoope ſhe muſt not be full gorg'd, / For then ſhe never lookes upon her lure.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 222:

(falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.


lure

lure (third-person singular simple present lures, present participle luring, simple past and past participle lured)

lures (present singular third-person)
luring (participle present)
lured (participle past)
lured (past)

(transitive, falconry) To recall a hawk with a lure.


plume

plume (third-person singular simple present plumes, present participle pluming, simple past and past participle plumed)

plumes (present singular third-person)
pluming (participle present)
plumed (participle past)
plumed (past)
plume (infinitive)

Sense 1 (“to adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes”) is derived from Anglo-Norman plumer (“to cover with or provide with feathers”), or its etymon Latin plūmāre, the present active infinitive of plūmō (“to grow feathers, to fledge; to cover with feathers, to feather; to embroider with a feathery pattern”) (and compare Late Latin plūmō (“to attach feathers to arrows; of a hawk: to pluck the feathers from prey; (figurative) to celebrate, praise”)), from plūma (“feather; plumage; down”) (see etymology 1) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).
Senses 2–4 (“to arrange and preen the feathers of; to congratulate (oneself) proudly; to strip of feathers”) are from Late Middle English plumen (“to remove the feathers from a bird; of a hawk: to pluck the feathers or the head from prey”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman and Middle French plumer (“to remove the feathers from a bird; to pull out (hairs, especially from a moustache); to rob”), from plūma (see etymology 1).
Sense 5 (“to fan out or spread in a cloud”) is derived from plume (noun).

der

The hauke proineth when ſhe fetcheth oyle with her beake over the taile, and anointeth her feet and her fethers. She plumeth when ſhe pulleth fethers of anie foule and caſteth them from her.

1793, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, “King Henry IV. Part I.”, in William Shakespeare, The Plays of William Shakespeare: […], volume VIII, London: […] T[homas] Longman, […], →OCLC, act I, scene i, page 366, footnote 3:

(transitive, archaic) To strip (a bird) of feathers; to pluck.

(falconry, obsolete) Of a hawk: to pluck the feathers from prey.


haggard

From Middle French haggard, from Old French faulcon hagard (“wild falcon”) ( > French hagard (“dazed”)), from Middle High German hag (“coppice”) ( > archaic German Hag (“hedge, grove”)). Akin to Frankish *hagia ( > French haie (“hedge”))

No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;
I know her spirits are as coy and wild
As haggards of the rock.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports
HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced

(falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.

(falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.


tiring

(falconry) Bits of bone and tough organic material from a corpse given to hawks to abate their hunger.


bower

(falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.


jess

From Middle English ges, from Middle French gies, from the plural of jet (“throw”), from Vulgar Latin *iectus, jectus < iactus (“a throwing”), or from jeter (“to throw”), itself from Latin iactare.

Haukes haue about theyr legges gesses made of lether moste comonly, some of silke which should no lenger but that the knottes of them should appere in ye myddes of the left hande betwene the longe fynger and the leche fynger bicause the lewnes should be fastened to them with a payre of tyrettes, whiche tyrettes should rest vpon the lewnes and not vpon gesses, for hangyng and fastyng vpon trees when she fleyth […]

1486, Juliana Berners, The booke of hauking, huntyng and fysshyng, London, published 1566:

I am that cedar; shake me not too much;
And you the eagles; soar ye ne’er so high,
I have the jesses that will pull you down;

1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

[…] If I do prove her haggard,
Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,
I’ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,
To pray at fortune.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

1686, Richard Blome, The Gentlemans Recreation, Part 2, Chapter 24 “Certain Terms of Art used in Falconry, with an Explanation thereof, Alphabetically set down,” p. 62,
Jesses are the short straps of Leather that are fastned to her Legs, and so to the Lease by the Varvils.

If your hawk is bad-weathered, that is, will not fit on your fist when the wind blows, but hales, and beats, and hangs by the jeſſes, ſhe has an ill habit of the worſt kind.

1773, James Campbell, A Treatise on modern faulconry:

(falconry) A short strap fastened around the leg of a bird used in falconry, to which a leash may be fastened.


jess

en-verb

jess (third-person singular simple present jesses, present participle jessing, simple past and past participle jessed)

jesses (present singular third-person)
jessing (participle present)
jessed (participle past)
jessed (past)

(falconry) To fasten a strap around the leg of a hawk.


mantle

mantle (third-person singular simple present mantles, present participle mantling, simple past and past participle mantled)

mantles (present singular third-person)
mantling (participle present)
mantled (participle past)
mantled (past)

From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *mantil; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, both from Latin mantēllum (“covering, cloak”), diminutive of mantum (French manteau, Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”). Compare Icelandic möttull. Doublet of manteau.

der

(falconry) The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.

(falconry) The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.


yarak

From Persian یارکی (yâraki, “power, strength, ability, boldness”).

uder

Kay began walking off in the wrong direction, raging in his heart because he knew that he had flown the bird when he was not properly in yarak, and the Wart had to shout after him the right way.

1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter II, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):

(falconry) A super-alert state where the bird is hungry, but not weak, in a trance-like state of alertness and ready to hunt.


brail

From Middle English brayle, from Old French braiel, from Medieval Latin bracale (“girdle”) (from bracae (“breeches”)).

(falconry) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.


reclaim

From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre.

(obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.


eyass

When Roland Græme was a youth about seventeen years of age, he chanced one summer morning to descend to the mew in which Sir Halbert Glendinning kept his hawks, in order to superintend the training of an eyass, or young hawk, which he himself, at the imminent risk of neck and limbs, had taken from a celebrated eyrie in the neighbourhood, called Gledscraig.

1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 82:


frill

en-verb

frill (third-person singular simple present frills, present participle frilling, simple past and past participle frilled)

frills (present singular third-person)
frilling (participle present)
frilled (participle past)
frilled (past)

(intransitive, obsolete, falconry) To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk).

1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, Chester: for the author, Book 2, Chapter 13, “Of the Voices of Birds,” p. 310,
The Eagle Frilleth, or Scriketh
The Hawk, as Falcon, Gawshawk, and all such Birds of Prey, cryeth, peepeth, or frilleth.

(intransitive, obsolete, falconry) To cry (with reference to a bird of prey).


tiercel

From Middle English tercel, from Old French terçuel, from Late Latin tertiolus, the diminutive of Latin tertius (“third”). Sources disagree whether the connection is that the males of most species of birds of prey favoured in falconry are smaller than the females by about a third, or whether it refers to the supposition that only one egg in three yields a male.

In this wise, the glossy bright-eyed kestrel, whom tiercels’ training could not reclaim, shook off silver bells, and velvet hood, and broidered jesses; and fled away—to consort, henceforward for evermore, with gleds, and hawks, and such birds of prey as make their nests deep in Bohemian forests, or in the desolate places of the Wilderness that girdles the frontier of the reputable world.

1866, [George Alfred Lawrence], “Evasit”, in Sans Merci; or, Kestrels and Falcons, volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], page 126:

He is a tiercel, lean and long and supple-winged, the first of the year.

1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 39:


coping

From cope (sense 2), used in the sense "dress in a cope," "to cover."

(falconry) Clipping the beak or talons of a bird.


nuzzle

nuzzle (third-person singular simple present nuzzles, present participle nuzzling, simple past and past participle nuzzled)

nuzzles (present singular third-person)
nuzzling (participle present)
nuzzled (participle past)
nuzzled (past)

Origin uncertain; appears to have a separate origin from nuzzle (etymology 1) due to the different meanings, but probably influenced by that word.

Often followed by '''up or with: to nurture or train (oneself or someone) to act a certain way, have certain beliefs, etc.

(falconry, hunting) To train (a dog or hawk) to attack prey.


seel

seel (third-person singular simple present seels, present participle seeling, simple past and past participle seeled)

seels (present singular third-person)
seeling (participle present)
seeled (participle past)
seeled (past)

From Middle English silen, from Old French siller, ciller (“to sew up the eyelids of, hoodwink, wink”), from cil (“eyelid”), from Latin cilium (“eyelid, eyelash”).

Hey who does blindly soar at Rhodalind[…]
Mounts, like seel'd doves, still higher[…]

(falconry) To sew together the eyes of a young hawk.


passager

He understood that once Cully had slept in freedom for a whole night he would be wild again and irreclaimable. Cully was a passager. But if the poor Wart could only mark him to roost, and if Hob would only arrive then with a dark lantern, they might still take him that night by climbing the tree, while he was sleepy and muddled with the light.


crabbing

en-noun

crabbing (usually uncountable, plural crabbings)

(falconry) The fighting of hawks with each other.


varvel

From Old French vervelle (“falcon's leg fetter”), from Vulgar Latin derivation of Latin vertibulum (“joint”).

uder

1894 — James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, s.v. Falcon.
To the jesses, it is said, are attached the varvels, sometimes written vervels, or rings.

(falconry, heraldry) A metal ring bearing the owner's name or coat of arms, attached to a hawk's jesses. Used for identifying birds.


austringer

From Middle English ostreger, ostringer, borrowed from Old French ostruchier, austruchier.

Just as in modern shooting, you must never offer criticism to the man in command, so in hawking it was important that no outside advice should be allowed to disturb the judgment of the austringer.

1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter I, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):

(falconry) A falconer who uses accipiters for hunting.


brancher

From branch (noun) + -er. So called because of the bird still clinging to the branches while practising flying movements with the wings.

“What, ho! sir knave,” exclaimed Roland, “is it thus you feed the eyasse with unwashed meat, as if you were gorging the foul brancher of a worthless hoodie-crow, by the mass?[…]”

1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 83:

(falconry) A young owl or other raptor that is just too young to fly.


bal-chatri

From Hindi बाल छतरी (bāl chatrī), from बाल (bāl, “child”) + छतरी (chatrī, “umbrella”) meaning "small umbrella", because of its shape.

com

(falconry) A trap for catching hunting birds, consisting of a cage with bait and a slip noose.


creance

From Middle English creaunce, from Old French creance. See credence.

Even as horses led by hand doe sometimes bound and start out of the way, but no further then their halters length, and neverthelesse follow ever his steps that leadeth them; And as a Hawke takes his flight but under the limits of hir cranes or twyne.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.12:

(falconry) A long leash, or lightweight cord used to prevent escape of a hawk during training flights.


make-hawk

(falconry) A trained and seasoned hawk flown with young birds to teach them to take the quarry.


crinet

Probably from Middle French crin (“hair”) + -et.

She has a blue beak, but the seer thereof, and legs, are yellow; the crinets or little feathers under the eye are very black; […]

1792, William Augustus Osbaldiston, The British Sportsman, page 379:

(obsolete, falconry) Each of the small hair-like feathers growing around a hawk's cere.


filanders

French filandres, from Latin filum (“thread”).

(falconry, obsolete) A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small thread-like worms and of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein.


man down

en-verb

man down (third-person singular simple present mans down, present participle manning down, simple past and past participle manned down)

mans down (present singular third-person)
manning down (participle present)
manned down (participle past)
manned down (past)

man (“to brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way; to supply (something) with staff or crew; to accustom (a hawk or other bird) to the presence of men”) + down

Eyasses begin a transition period in the late summer as their falconry training begins. This critical period involves manning down the raptor, slowly lowering the body weight, and controlled flight training.

1995, Main Conference Proceedings: Annual Conference & Expo, August 28 – September 2, 1995, Orlando, Fla.: Association of Avian Veterinarians, →OCLC, page 176:

When taken directly from the chamber, initially Mrs Woods [a sparrowhawk] showed a high level of fear but when manned down, she went on to show no aggression whatsoever.

2014, Ben Crane, Sparrowhawks: A Falconer's Guide, Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire: The Crowood Press, →ISBN:

(transitive, chiefly falconry) To train (a raptor or other type of bird) to become accustomed to the presence of people; to man.


rake out

rake out (third-person singular simple present rakes out, present participle raking out, simple past and past participle raked out)

rakes out (present singular third-person)
raking out (participle present)
raked out (participle past)
raked out (past)

When you intend a Flight for a Haggard, for the firſt, ſecond and third time make choice of ſuch a place where there are no Cows, Rooks, or the like, to take away all occasion of her raking out ſuch check.

1674, “Of Hawks and Hawking”, in The Gentleman's Recreation:

(intransitive, falconry) To fly too far and wide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung.


pannel

Old spelling of panel which became standard in falconry.

Glut is the slimy substance that lies in the hawk's pannel.

1860, John Potter Hamilton, Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman:

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909


bowess

(obsolete, falconry) A bower, or young hawk.


crinel

(obsolete, falconry) Alternative form of crinet


megahack

As for our current bald eagle restoration plan, hacking continued during 1986 with the release of 16 eagles at our megahack facility near Albany.

1987, The Eyas: A Newsletter from the National Wildlife Federation's Rapor Information Center:

(falconry) A large-scale hack, or facility for releasing juvenile raptors.


enew

enew (third-person singular simple present enews, present participle enewing, simple past and past participle enewed)

enews (present singular third-person)
enewing (participle present)
enewed (participle past)
enewed (past)

From Old French enewer; see en- and compare modern French eau (“water”).

(falconry, transitive) To drive back to the water; to pursue.


unstrike

unstrike (third-person singular simple present unstrikes, present participle unstriking, simple past and past participle unstruck)

unstrikes (present singular third-person)
unstriking (participle present)
unstruck (participle past)
unstruck (past)

Now I unstrike, and at my whistle heard, Upcircling skyward springs my gentle bird Condemned through many centuries to search For some true Christian whereupon to perch.

1859, Frederick William Wyon, Poems, page 92:

I wish I could as easily unstrike The strings that keep my memories in hood, And let them down the wind.

1870, James White, The King of the Commons:

Either sportsman, as they reached the marshy ground, attended to the falcon on his wrist, and began to unstrike her hood.

1876, Elizabeth Kerr Coulson, Dante and Beatrice, from 1282 to 1290, by Roxburghe Lothian:

He then stopped, turned about, and suddenly unstriking her hood, tossed her into the air with an encouraging shout.

1965, The North American Review - Volume 68, page 217:

(falconry) To loosen the strings that attach the hood on the bird's head.


perlin

(falconry) A cross breed of a peregrine falcon and a merlin.


bougher

(falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.