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Sentence Examples
The female peregrine falcon is properly called a falcon, and the male which, in common with most species of raptors, is smaller than the female is known as a tiercel.
Barbara, who won the title back in 1991 with the Connemarapony Tiercel Mystical, will travel down to London early on Monday morning for the class.
Towards the end of the session, Tiercel Stud offers Myrrh, a half-sister to Ascot Gold Cup winner Celeric and high-class middle-distance performer Sesame.
Examples from Classical Literature
It must not be considered that this tiercel did not dash at once into the whole flock because he was afraid to do so.
The price for a falcon is four to five pounds, and of a tiercel from three to four.
The Norfolk plover may be taken with a falcon or tiercel, generally without great difficulty.
The latter was probably called the tercel, or tiercel, from being about a third smaller than the falcon.
He appears to have known a tiercel which flew rooks, and seldom missed as much as one in ten flights.
The tiercel of the saker is more properly called a sakret, sakeret, or sackeret.
It is only rather exceptionally that a tiercel can be got to fly them.
