- a variation of gyrfalcon.
gerfalcon
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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At every hour I call him back by thoughts: A rebel he, like gerfalcon insane, He feels no more the hand that did restrain, And is gone forth not to return again.
From The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem by Williams, L.
He always had a hand as true as steel, and an eye like a gerfalcon.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various
The cut below exhibits the conventional effigy of a gerfalcon as sculptured over one of the gates of Iconium, Polo's Conia.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry
I am skilled in the uses of falcon-gentle, gerfalcon, saker, lanner, merlin, hobby, goshawk, sparrow-hawk, and musket—” Brilliana interrupted him with an impetuous gesture of command, and Evander made an end of his display.
From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
But pressing forward again, they came upon a gerfalcon lying, with long lunes tangled about his feet and through his breast the hole that Sir Dinar's bolt had made.
From Wandering Heath by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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