tercel

• “All parker did was say “windy” means winds in the 3rd tercel.”

  Parker 2006: An Urban Myth? « Climate Audit

• “To get the upper tercel you had to consider winds from 3-9 mph.”

  Parker 2006: An Urban Myth? « Climate Audit

• “She wrote a list of words: falcon, tercel, familiar, hood.”

  Simon & Schuster: T-Backs, T-shirts, Coat, and Suit

• “To Tyler a tercel spelled with a small t was a male falcon, a kind of hawk, that people train to kill prey.”

  Simon & Schuster: T-Backs, T-shirts, Coat, and Suit

• “These he fastened firmly together, and set them securely within that window, by which the tercel would come to his lady.”

  French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France

• “Whilst the lady yet wondered upon him, the tercel became a young and comely knight before her eyes.”

  French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France

• “The falcon as the tercel, for all the ducks i’ the river: go to, go to.”

  Act III. Scene II. Troilus and Cressida

• “For their pleasure and sport Guivret caused to be taken with them rich falcons, both young and moulted, many a tercel and sparrow-hawk, and many a setter and greyhound.”

  Four Arthurian Romances

• “A numerous and gay band he brought two hundred of them in his suite; and there was none, whoever he be, but had a falcon or tercel, a merlin or a sparrow-hawk, or some precious pigeon-hawk, golden or mewed.”

  Four Arthurian Romances

• “Two wild hawks, beating up from the south, spied the pigeons, and pounced one upon the tercel with the dove in his talons, the other upon Clair de la Lune.”

  Masters of the Guild

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