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tercel

tercel is the alternative 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 tercel

pluraltercels

Words formed from tercel

Phrases with tercel

Questions about tercel

What is tercel the alternative form of?
Tercel is the alternative form of tiercel.

Words near tercel in the dictionary

  1. terbogrel
  2. terbuficin
  3. terbutaline
  4. terbuthylazine
  5. terce
  6. tercel
  7. tercel gentle
  8. tercel gentles
  9. tercelet
  10. tercelets
  11. tercels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tercel (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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