gerfalcon
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
If it had not have been for that little bird at Chilton you might have hoodwinked me as blind as ever gerfalcon was hooded.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
In gerfaut, gerfalcon, for Old Fr. gerfauc, the less familiar final -c was, as in boulevart, replaced by the more usual -t.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
It occurred to me that it might be the famous gerfalcon, or Icelandic eagle; and, on mentioning this supposition, Raed and Kit both agreed with me that it seemed likely.
From Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)
And at that tournament Sir Uwaine smote down thirty knights, therefore was given him the prize, and that was a gerfalcon, and a white steed trapped with cloth of gold.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
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