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tiercel

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈtɜː(ɹ)səl/Part of speech nounSorted ceeilrtStarts with TEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon

Word origin

From Middle English tercel, from Old French terçuel, from Late Latin tertiolus, the diminutive of Latin tertius (“third”). Sources disagree whether the connection is that the males of most species of birds of prey favoured in falconry are smaller than the females by about a third, or whether it refers to the supposition that only one egg in three yields a male.

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  • He is a tiercel, lean and long and supple-winged, the first of the year.

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