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tercel

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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

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CIDE DICTIONARY

tercel, n.

See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

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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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