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Definition of Falconer
1. Noun. A person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry.
Definition of Falconer
1. n. A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
Definition of Falconer
1. Noun. A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey for taking birds or game. ¹
2. Noun. One who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Falconer
1. one that hunts with hawks [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Falconer
Literary usage of Falconer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"Besides working out his own collections, falconer gave much time to determining
the Indian fossils in the British Museum and the East India House, ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"WILLIAM falconer was bora about the year 1730', and was the son of a poor but
... Campbell is said to have discovered in falconer talents worthy of ..."
3. Guide to Printed Books and Manuscripts Relating to English and Foreign by George Gatfield (1892)
"The Wills of various members of the falconer Family, edited by Thomas falconer.
Privately printed. Lond. 1866? John falconer. ..."
4. The Scottish Nation: Or, The Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and by William Anderson (1862)
"Sir David's second son, Sir David falconer of Newton, was sometime lord ...
President falconer collected the decisions of the Court of Session from November ..."
5. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1782)
"The fa& upon which Dr. falconer founded his idea, is related by ... but is not
urged even by Dr, falconer, with any degree of certainty fuffi- cient to ..."
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