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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A male hawk used in falconry.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A male falcon; especially, the male of the peregrine falcon.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Alternative form of tiercel.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. See tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon

Etymologies

  1. From Middle French terçuel < Vulgar Latin *tertiolus < Latin tertius. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French terçuel, from Vulgar Latin *tertiōlus, diminutive of Latin tertius, third; see trei- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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