austringer

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Etymology

From Middle English ostreger, ostringer, borrowed from Old French ostruchier, austruchier.

Noun

austringer (plural austringers)

  1. (obsolete) A keeper of goshawks.
  2. (falconry) A falconer who uses accipiters for hunting.
    • 1958, T H White, chapter I, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
      Just as in modern shooting, you must never offer criticism to the man in command, so in hawking it was important that no outside advice should be allowed to disturb the judgment of the austringer.

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