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The tiercel, he remembered Percey Clay telling him. — The Coffin Dancer
The lark fell as a grouse or a partridge will fall to a falcon or tiercel, and the sparrow-hawk did not attempt to carry, but held on his way. — Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
In other words, we are to select the nobler species, the long-winged peregrine falcon, the male of which was called a tiercel-gentle, for flying at the heron or the mallard; and a short-winged hawk, such as the goshawk or sparrow-hawk, for blackbirds and other hedgerow birds. — A Cotswold Village
"Bází," Pers. "Báz" (here Richardson is wrong s.v.); a term to a certain extent generic, but specially used for the noble Peregrine (F. Peregrinator) whose tiercel is the Sháhín (or "Royal Bird"). — Arabian nights. English
[F.#169] The F. Sacer in India is called "Laghar" and tiercel — Arabian nights. English