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creance

American  
[kree-uhns] / ˈkri əns /

noun

Falconry.
  1. a light cord attached to the leg of a hawk to prevent escape during training.


Etymology

Origin of creance

1300–50; Middle English < Middle French < Vulgar Latin *crēdentia credence

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While the owl will be attached to a creance — “it’s like a zip line,” she explained — for a controlled flight, Machu will fly free.

From New York Times Oct. 2, 2014

Very carefully and kindly, and with the best intentions, she wound the creance up quite wrong.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

A fine peregrine falcon, with her music jingling in the whistling wind als clear, and her creance trailing behind her, was beating along above his head toward the top of ' one of the elms.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The creance wrapped itself three times round the nearest bough.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Wherfore it semethe wel, that God lovethe hem and is plesed with hire creance, for hire gode dedes.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt

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