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falconer
[fawl-kuh-ner, fal-, faw-kuh-]
noun
a person who hunts with falcons or follows the sport of hawking.
a person who trains hawks for hunting.
ˈڲDzԱ
/ ˈfɔːkə-, ˈfɔːlkənə /
noun
a person who breeds or trains hawks or who follows the sport of falconry
Other 51Թ Forms
- underfalconer noun
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
A Harris's hawk which terrorised a village for at least a month has found a forever home with a local falconer.
"I screamed out for the falconer to come and help, and he came and tamed it."
It added the falconer was still confident they could catch the bird.
As William Butler Yeats famously told us at another precarious moment in history, “The falcon cannot hear the falconer ... the centre cannot hold.”
Central Park was a “target-rich environment,” in the words of James Eyring, a falconer and a retired Pace University environmental sciences professor.
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