Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A keeper and trainer of goshawks.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A keeper of goshawks.
- n. falconry A falconer who uses accipiters for hunting.
Etymologies
- Old French ostruchier, austruchier. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The correct technical word for a shortwing- flyer is "austringer".”
“I tried to go read After The Bar Closes and found my IP address blocked after commenting here and on austringer.net.”
“He adds: When one sees an ill- formed man, with great big feet and long shapeless shanks, built like a trestle.... hump- shouldered and skew- backed, and one wants to mock him, one says, 'Look, what an austringer!”
“MATT: OK, here's a pic of one graceless austringer and his lowly hawk...”
“We usually call a falconer who keeps that kind of hawk [the goshawk] an austringer.”
Lists
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for austringer.

sionnach keeper of goshawks. Feb 9, 2008