Definition of Lanneret

1. Noun. A male lanner, smaller than the female version. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lanneret

1. a male lanner [n -S] - See also: lanner

Medical Definition of Lanneret

1. A long-tailed falcon (Falco lanarius), of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, resembling the American prairie falcon. Origin: F. Lanier, OF. Also, lasnier. Cf. Lanyard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lanneret

lankest
lankier
lankiest
lankily
lankiness
lankinesses
lanking
lankly
lankness
lanknesses
lanks
lanky
lanmuchangite
lanner
lanner falcon
lanneret (current term)
lannerets
lanners
lannet
lannets
lannonite
lanolin
lanoline
lanolines
lanolins
lanose
lanosities
lanosity
lanostane
lanostanes

Literary usage of Lanneret

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Promptorium parvulorum: The first English-Latin dictionary by Galfridus, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1908)
"[lanneret is the dimin. of lanner, Fr. lanier, a lanner (COTGRAVE) ; Lat laniarius, that which tears and rends.] 256. 1204. Lasch, insipid. ..."

2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1887)
"Lanner, lanneret, a kind of falcon. (F.—L.) These wor are given in Nares ; lanner ... lanneret is merely diminutive form. From F. lanier, ' a lanner ' ..."

3. Notes on English Etymology: Chiefly Reprinted from the Transactions of the by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"Lanner, lanneret, a kind of falcon. (F.—L.) These words are given in Nares ... lanneret is merely the diminutive form. From F. lanier, 'a lanner'; Cotgrave. ..."

4. Heroic Ballads of Servia by Leonard Bacon (1913)
"And Aliya a tame lanneret. Them happed the duck to slay. ... But Aliya said, "Nay, Twas the lanneret." Then was Muyo sore cast down in that place. ..."

5. The Game Law; Or, a Collection of the Laws and Statutes Made for the by Great Britain (1722)
"... kill, or bear away any Gos-hawk, Taffel, Lanner, lanneret or Faul- con, from the Coverts where they ufe to breed. Penalty io/. to be recovered before ..."

6. On Ancient Manorial Customs, Tenures, Services, Privileges, Serjeanties by Richard Stephen Charnock (1870)
"... two palfreys at the livery of the King; and similar services prevailed at Baddow and 1 Webster gives—" tanner, lanneret, a European specie* of hawk. ..."

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