Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that breeds and trains falcons.
- noun One that hunts with falcons.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who breeds and trains hawks for taking game; also, one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who breeds or trains
hawks or other birds of prey for taking birds or game. - noun One who
follows the sport offowling with hawks.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
Etymologies
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Examples
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There's a reason for this; becoming a licensed falconer is a two-year process, involving an apprenticeship, tests, and many other requirements.
Photo Gallery: Deputy Editor Anthony Licata Goes Hunting with Hawks 2006
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"The falconer is a professor of something, so both are possibilities..."
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We usually call a falconer who keeps that kind of hawk [the goshawk] an austringer.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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Michael M. Phillips/The Wall Street Journal Mr. Graves, right, heads out to check the snare lines at Bagram Airfield with interpreter Mohammed Ashraf, left, and Mohammed Arif, an Afghan falconer and trapper.
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The film, which is everywhere is supposed to be by by the late Felix Rodriguez y Fuentes, a Spanish naturalist and falconer, for a TV series (maybe in the seventies?)
Eagle Predation 2009
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Dr. William Cornatzer, a dermatologist and falconer, saw a presentation about the potential dangers of lead at a board meeting of the Peregrine Fund, a group devoted to conserving birds of prey.
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The film, which is everywhere is supposed to be by by the late Felix Rodriguez y Fuentes, a Spanish naturalist and falconer, for a TV series (maybe in the seventies?)
Eagle Predation 2009
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Mr. Graves's assistant is a bearded Afghan falconer, 49-year-old Mohammed Arif, who was a mujahedeen fighter in the 1980s when Bagram was a Soviet base.
In Afghanistan, the War on Jirds Is Actually Going Pretty Well Michael M. Phillips 2011
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The film, which is everywhere is supposed to be by by the late Felix Rodriguez y Fuentes, a Spanish naturalist and falconer, for a TV series (maybe in the seventies?)
Eagle Predation 2009
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The film, which is everywhere is supposed to be by by the late Felix Rodriguez y Fuentes, a Spanish naturalist and falconer, for a TV series (maybe in the seventies?)
Eagle Predation 2009
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