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soreage

soreage noun: the time between a hawk's being taken from the eyrie and first mewing or moulting its feathers.

Noun

soreage (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The time between a hawk's being taken from the eyrie and first mewing or moulting its feathers.
    • One Sparhawke had the Pinne this last yeare in her sore-age, and I tolde her Master of the happy proceeding I had with the Goshawke, and he did practise the same […]1619, Edmund Bert, An Approved Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking
    • […] or lastly, after they have preyd for themselves (and then be called Sore-Hawkes, or Hawkes in their Soreage.)1621, Gervase Markham, Hungers Preuention: or The Whole Art of Fowling By Water and Land

Origin of soreage

See sore.

Questions about soreage

What does soreage mean?
Soreage means the time between a hawk's being taken from the eyrie and first mewing or moulting its feathers.
What part of speech is soreage?
Soreage is a noun.

Words near soreage in the dictionary

  1. sore winners
  2. Sore-Loserman
  3. sore-throated
  4. sore-thumbish
  5. Sore/Loserman
  6. soreage
  7. sored
  8. sorede
  9. soredes
  10. soredia
  11. soredial

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