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    Tercel
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Tercel has 1 sense
- tercel(n = noun.animal) tercelet, tiercel - male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon; Array is a kind of hawk
Derived form noun tercelet1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Tercel, n.  (also tiercel) Falconry the male of the hawk, esp. a peregrine or goshawk.
                    Etymology
                        ME f. OF tercel, ult. a dimin. of L tertius third, perh. from a belief that the third egg of a clutch produced a male bird, or that the male was one-third smaller than the female
                                    
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