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What is a falconet?

What is a falconet? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A small or young falcon.
  2. Any of various small, tropical Asian falcons of the genus Microhierax found in Southeast Asia.
  3. (military, historical) A light cannon developed in the late 15th century and decorated with an image of a falcon.
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Mr Fuseli criticises the passage, and assumes that the painter had better reason than that given by Mr falconet.
He was always a good shot with a falconet or a mortar-piece.
Disraeli left an unfinished novel in which the priggish central character, Falconet, is unmistakably a caricature of Gladstone.
Until you spot a long-limbed, regal caracara or a cute, little falconet, you haven't met the whole Falconidae family.
To each of the brigantines was allotted a falconet, and three hundred of the troops were detailed to man the fleet.
They were provided with sails and twelve oars each, and a falconet, or small brass cannon.

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