Showing results for tercel. Search instead for torcel.

tercel

American

[tur-suhl] / ˈtɜr səl /

Also tercelet

noun

Falconry.

the male of a hawk, especially of a gyrfalcon or peregrine.

tercel British

/ ˈtɜːsəl /

noun

a male falcon or hawk, esp as used in falconry

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of tercel

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French terçuel < Vulgar Latin *tertiolus, equivalent to Latin terti ( us ) third + -olus -ole ¹; probably so called because the male is about one third smaller than the female

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023