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castrel

castrel is the obsolete form of kestrel.

Meaning of kestrel

Noun

kestrel (plural kestrels)

  1. Any of various small falcons of the genus Falco that hover while hunting.
    • When she was musing she was a kestrel, which hangs in the air by an invisible motion of its wings.1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, book 3 chapter 6
  2. A common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
    Synonyms:
    windhover, staniel

Forms of castrel

pluralcastrels

Origin of castrel

Compare Latin clisterella f, Old French crecel and cercele, French crécerelle f and cristel m, Neapolitan castariello m, all sharing the same meaning.

Questions about castrel

What is castrel the obsolete form of?
Castrel is the obsolete form of kestrel.

Words near castrel in the dictionary

  1. castratos
  2. castratrices
  3. castratrix
  4. Castrejon
  5. Castrejons
  6. castrel
  7. Castrellon
  8. Castrellons
  9. castrels
  10. castrensial
  11. castrensian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: castrel (page history and authors); kestrel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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