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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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To each of the brigantines was allotted a falconet, and three hundred of the troops were detailed to man the fleet.
Mr Fuseli criticises the passage, and assumes that the painter had better reason than that given by Mr falconet.
Disraeli left an unfinished novel in which the priggish central character, Falconet, is unmistakably a caricature of Gladstone.
He was always a good shot with a falconet or a mortar-piece.
The marquise gave the supreme accolade of her approval to the sculptors Pigalle and Falconet by posing for them at full length.
They were provided with sails and twelve oars each, and a falconet, or small brass cannon.

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