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tassell

tassell is the obsolete form of tiercel.

Meaning of tiercel

Noun

tiercel (plural tiercels)

  1. A male hawk or falcon.
    • In this wise, the glossy bright-eyed kestrel, whom tiercels’ training could not reclaim, shook off silver bells, and velvet hood, and broidered jesses; and fled away—to consort, henceforward for evermore, with gleds, and hawks, and such birds of prey as make their nests deep in Bohemian forests, or...1866, [George Alfred Lawrence], “Evasit”, in Sans Merci; or, Kestrels and Falcons, volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], page 126
    Synonyms:
    tarse, tercelet, ger-tiercel

Forms of tassell

pluraltassells

Origin of tassell

Alteration of tiercel.

Questions about tassell

What is tassell the obsolete form of?
Tassell is the obsolete form of tiercel.

Words near tassell in the dictionary

  1. tasselet
  2. tasselets
  3. tasselflower
  4. tasseling
  5. tasselings
  6. tassell
  7. tasselled
  8. tasselled wobbegong
  9. tasselled wobbegongs
  10. tasselling
  11. tassellings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tassell (page history and authors); tiercel (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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