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falconets

falconets is the plural of falconet.

Meaning of falconet

Noun

falconet (plural falconets)

  1. A small or young falcon.
  2. Any of various small, tropical Asian falcons of the genus Microhierax found in Southeast Asia.
  3. (historical) A light cannon developed in the late 15th century and decorated with an image of a falcon.
    • The besieged made a gallant resistance, and night and day kept up a firing of double-harquebuses, and other kinds of artillery; and it happened that one day Falkenberg's chin was shot away by a ball from a falconet, and three days after he died of the wound, in great agony.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 59

Questions about falconets

What is falconets the plural of?
Falconets is the plural of falconet.

Words near falconets in the dictionary

  1. falconed
  2. falconer
  3. falconers
  4. Falcones
  5. falconet
  6. falconets
  7. Falconi
  8. falconid
  9. falconids
  10. falconiform
  11. falconiforms

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