falconer
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8.5
- noun
- /ˈfɔːlkənər/
:
cetrero
- The falconer used a special lure to train his hawk to catch prey in the field.
- falconer and biologist
To recap, open door plus long stick equals professional Falconer.
- To recap, open door plus long stick equals professional Falconer.
Examples
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Today there are 4,200 licensed falconers nationwide.
Academic text (2009) -
I had heard tell of them from a falconer who once came to our steading.
Fiction book (1993) -
- The greatest falconer in the Western Isles.
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I mean, I come from a long line of Irish falconers.
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One falconer spent four days tracking his lost peregrine around suburban Long Island.
Academic text (2009) -
Yet in many ways, falconers are proven and committed stewards of nature.
Academic text (2009) -
Traditional falconers motivate a bird to hunt by carefully managing its body weight.
Academic text (2009) -
A falconer for over forty years, Cullen has been breeding raptors since the 1970s.
Academic text (2009) -
At a time when most Americans' lives are increasingly divorced from the outdoors, falconers sustain an age-old bond with wildlife.
Academic text (2009) -
Falconers let their trained raptors fly freely; transmitters aid retrieval should a bird decline to return.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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9.6
A person who raises and trains hawks for hunting
How Skilled
- Archaic
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9.6
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8.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Falconer comes from falcon, the bird, and the ending -er, which means 'one who'. The word falcon came from an old word meaning 'sickle' because the bird's curved claws look like that tool, so a falconer is 'one who' keeps and trains falcons.