Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| astringer austringer ostreger | a falconer who keeps a goshawk. |
| auceps | a hawker or bird-tender > AUCEPSES. |
| bate | to beat the wings impatiently, to try to fly from the fist or perch when still attached by leash or jesses. |
| brail | a leather strap to bind a hawk's wing; (verb) to fit a hawk with this. |
| brancher | a young hawk or other bird when it leaves the nest and begins to take to the branches. |
| cadge | a padded wooden frame on which a number of hawks may be carried; (verb) to beg or sponge from another. |
| canceleer cancelier | the turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop; (verb) to make such a turn. |
| creance | the cord which secures the hawk in training. |
| emmew enmew immew | to confine, mew up, as a hawk in MEWS. |
| enew | in falconry, to drive or plunge into water. [OF. en + eau]. |
| eyas eyass | a young hawk taken from its nest for training. |
| falconer | one that hunts with hawks. |
| falconry | the sport of hunting with falcons. |
| haggard | a wild or unreclaimed hawk. |
| hawkbell | a small bell attached to a hawk's leg. |
| hawking | falconry. |
| immew | see EMMEW. |
| imp | to engraft (a hawk) with new feathers. |
| jess jesse | a strap of leather attached to the talons of a hawk, by which it is held on the fist; (verb) to fasten such straps. |
| lanner | a kind of falcon. |
| lanneret | the male LANNER, a kind of falcon. |
| lure | a bunch of feathers used to retrieve a hawk; (verb) to attract with something desirable. |
| mew | a cage for hawks; (verb) to confine in a mew. |
| nyas | = EYAS, a young hawk taken from the nest for training |
| ostreger | see ASTRINGER. |
| rifler | a hawk that grasps only feathers in striking at the quarry. |
| saker | a falcon native to Southern Europe and Asia, closely resembling the LANNER. |
| sakeret | the male of the SAKER. |
| seel | to stitch up a hawk's eyes. |
| sorage | the first year of a hawk's life; a hawk in its first year. |
| unmew | to release from confinement or restraint. |
| unseel | to unstitch a hawk's eyelids. |
| varvel vervel | a ring for a hawk's jess. |
| varvelled | having VARVELS. |
| vervelled | having VERVELS. |
| yarak | of a hawk, in a fit condition for hunting. |
| ympe | (Spenser) to imp > YMPES, YMPING, YMPT. |