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rufter

rufter noun: a loose-fitting hood for birds, used in falconry.

Noun

rufter (plural rufters)

  1. A loose-fitting hood for birds, used in falconry.
    • A special shelf, and the most beautiful of all, held the hoods: very old cracked rufter hoods which had been made for birds before Kay was born, tiny hoods for the merlins, small hoods for tiercels, splendid new hoods which had been knocked up to pass away the long winter evenings.1958, T[erence] H[anbury] 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 rufter

pluralrufters

Questions about rufter

What does rufter mean?
Rufter means a loose-fitting hood for birds, used in falconry.
What part of speech is rufter?
Rufter is a noun.
What is the plural of rufter?
The plural of rufter is rufters.

Words near rufter in the dictionary

  1. rufous-winged antshrike
  2. rufous-winged antshrikes
  3. rufouses
  4. rufousness
  5. ruft
  6. rufter
  7. rufters
  8. ruful
  9. rufulous
  10. Rufus
  11. rug

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