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tiercels

tiercels is the plural 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

Questions about tiercels

What is tiercels the plural of?
Tiercels is the plural of tiercel.

Words near tiercels in the dictionary

  1. tierced
  2. tiercel
  3. tiercel gentle
  4. tiercelet
  5. tiercelets
  6. tiercels
  7. tierceron
  8. tiercerons
  9. tierces
  10. tierces de Picardie
  11. tiercet

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