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falconing

falconing is the present participle and gerund of falcon.

Meaning of falcon

Verb

falcon (third-person singular simple present falcons, present participle falconing, simple past and past participle falconed)

  1. To hunt with a falcon or falcons.
    • He rode astride while hawking; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.2003, Brenda Joyce, House of Dreams, page 175

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Noun

falconing (uncountable)

  1. falconry

Questions about falconing

What does falconing mean?
Falconing means falconry.
What is falconing the present participle and gerund of?
Falconing is the present participle and gerund of falcon.
What part of speech is falconing?
Falconing is a noun.

Words near falconing in the dictionary

  1. falconid
  2. falconids
  3. falconiform
  4. falconiforms
  5. falconine
  6. falconing
  7. Falconis
  8. falconish
  9. falconlike
  10. falconologist
  11. falconologists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: falconing (page history and authors); falcon (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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