falconer

From Middle English fauconer, from Old French falconer, fauconer, from faucon (“falcon”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɒl.kən.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈfɔːk.nə(ɹ)/, and similar variations
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfælkənɚ/

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falconer (plural falconers)

1. A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey for taking birds or game.
   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. , volume I, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC, page 83:

     And to add force to his remonstrances, he conferred a cuff or two on the negligent attendant of the hawks, who, shouting rather louder than was necessary under all the circumstances, brought the master falconer to his assistance.

2. One who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.

• hawker

• falconry

• “falconer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Florance

• fauconer (Anglo-Norman)
• fauconier
• fauconnier

falcon +‎ -er.

falconer oblique singular, m (oblique plural falconers, nominative singular falconers, nominative plural falconer)

1. (Anglo-Norman) falconer (person who breeds or trains hawks)

• → English: falconer
• French: fauconnier