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ostringer

ostringer is the obsolete form of austringer.

Meaning of austringer

Noun

austringer (plural austringers)

  1. (obsolete) A keeper of goshawks.
    • Ye shall vnderstonde that thay be calde Ostregeris that kepe Goshawkys or Tercellis, and tho that kepe Sperhawkys and muskettys ben called Speruiteris, and keperis of all other hawkys ben callidde Faukeneris.1486, Book of Saint Albans
  2. A falconer who uses accipiters for hunting.
    • Just as in modern shooting you must never offer criticism to the man in command, so in hawking it was important that no outside advice should be allowed to disturb the judgment of the austringer.1958, T. H. White, chapter I, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone)

Forms of ostringer

pluralostringers

Questions about ostringer

What is ostringer the obsolete form of?
Ostringer is the obsolete form of austringer.

Words near ostringer in the dictionary

  1. ostridges
  2. ostriferous
  3. ostrige
  4. ostriger
  5. ostriges
  6. ostringer
  7. ostringers
  8. ostrisize
  9. ostro
  10. ostrobogulosity
  11. ostrobogulous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ostringer (page history and authors); austringer (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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