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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

Example Sentences

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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

The creance wrapped itself three times round the nearest bough.

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

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

Gardez vous surtout de vouloir me préoccuper pour vous attirer ma creance, et pour vous donner de l'autorité.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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