Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In falconry, rings, usually of silver, placed on the legs of a hunting-hawk, on which the owner's name is engraved. See cut under
à la cuisse .
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- noun Plural form of
varvel .
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"imped" to-morrow; and of the relative merits of the "varvels" or little silver rings at the end of the jesses through which the leash ran, and the Dutch swivel that Squire Blackett always used.
By What Authority? Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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