Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In falconry, the pinion or outer joint of a hawk's wing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, esp. of a hawk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of the outer
pinions orfeathers of thewing of abird , especially ahawk .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Old French cercel, French cerceau, Latin circellus, diminutive of circulus. See circle.
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Examples
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Take a sarcel or teal, and raise his wings and his legs, and no sauce but only salt.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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