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Definition of Gerfalcon

1. Noun. Large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases.

Definition of Gerfalcon

1. n. See Gyrfalcon.

Definition of Gerfalcon

1. Noun. (alternative form of gyrfalcon) ¹

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Definition of Gerfalcon

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Medical Definition of Gerfalcon

1. One of several species and varieties of large Arctic falcons, especially. Falco rusticolus and the white species F. Islandicus, both of which are circumpolar. The black and the gray are varieties of the former. Alternative forms: gerfalcon, gierfalcon, and jerfalcon. Origin: OE. Gerfaucon, OF. Gerfaucon, LL. Gyrofalco, perh. Fr. L. Gyrus circle + falco falcon, and named from its circling flight; or cf. E. Gier-eagle. See Gyre, Falcon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gerfalcon

Literary usage of Gerfalcon

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

1. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1829)
"gerfalcon (Falco islandicus Lath.). (Jig. 85.) — This is one of the boldest birds of the whole genus, and was used in falconry for the larger species of ..."

2. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and by Marco Polo (1875)
"... a gerfalcon as sculptured over one of the gates of Iconium, Polo's Conia. The head might easily pass for a conventional representation of a cat's head, ..."

3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1881)
"The Treatise ends with assigning to each rank and condition of men its appropriate hawk ; a king has a gerfalcon, an earl a peregrine, ..."

4. Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors by William Carew Hazlitt, Thomas Blount (1874)
"... by the service of carrying a gerfalcon from Michaelmas till Lent at the King's Court. ... gerfalcon ..."

5. Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors by Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"... by the service of carrying a gerfalcon from Michaelmas till Lent at the King's Court. ... gerfalcon ..."

6. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and by Marco Polo (1875)
"The cut below exhibits the conventional effigy of a gerfalcon as sculptured over one of the gates of Iconium, Polo's Conia. The head might easily pass for a ..."

7. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... Physiologie philosophique des sensation» et de l'intelligence (1846) ; and Chirurgie pratique, uncompleted (1851-'б). gerfalcon ..."

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