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sarcel

sarcel noun: one of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, especially a hawk.

Noun

sarcel (plural sarcels)

  1. One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, especially a hawk.
    • If a ſarcell, or other feathers be broken aboue the quyll, towards the poynt of yͤ fethers twoo or three fingers bredth, you muſt cut it off with a ſharpe penknife, aſlope, and (as they ſay) a ſwaſhe, ⁊ then take another feather to the ſame, cutting it in like manner, as you did the other, ſo as it...1575, George Turberuile [i.e.. George Turberville], “The Way and Manner, Howe to Ympe a Hawkes Feather, Howsoeuer It be Broken or Broosed”, in The Booke of Faulconrie or Hauking, for the Onely...

Forms of sarcel

pluralsarcels

Origin of sarcel

From Old French cercel, French cerceau, Latin circellus, diminutive of circulus. See circle.

Questions about sarcel

What does sarcel mean?
Sarcel means one of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, especially a hawk.
What part of speech is sarcel?
Sarcel is a noun.
What is the plural of sarcel?
The plural of sarcel is sarcels.

Words near sarcel in the dictionary

  1. sarcasticalness
  2. sarcastick
  3. sarcasticness
  4. sarcasts
  5. Sarcee
  6. sarcel
  7. sarcele
  8. sarcelie
  9. sarcelle
  10. sarcelled
  11. sarcelles

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