falconer

[fawl-kuh-ner, fal-, faw-kuh-]

noun

1. a person who hunts with falcons or follows the sport of hawking.

2. a person who trains hawks for hunting.

ˈfalconer

/ ˈfɔːkə-, ˈfɔːlkənə /

noun

1. a person who breeds or trains hawks or who follows the sport of falconry

Other Word Forms

• underfalconer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of ˈfalconer¹

1350–1400; Middle English falkenar (< Medieval Latin falcōnārius ), fauconer < Anglo-French; Old French fauconier < Medieval Latin; falcon, -er ²

Example Sentences

The locals say Agnes is the “child of a forest witch” and she is indeed extraordinary: an able herbalist, beekeeper and falconer.

From Los Angeles Times

A Harris's hawk which terrorised a village for at least a month has found a forever home with a local falconer.

From BBC

"I screamed out for the falconer to come and help, and he came and tamed it."

From BBC

It added the falconer was still confident they could catch the bird.

From BBC

As William Butler Yeats famously told us at another precarious moment in history, “The falcon cannot hear the falconer ... the centre cannot hold.”

From Los Angeles Times