(n.) The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.
(n.) The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Harris hawks are not known for their speed but they are social birds and easy to train, making them popular for falconry.
(2) He thought it hilarious that God had made a woman with the falconry bug.
(3) It’s a memoir of mourning, a history of falconry, and has this wonderful special vocabulary of falconry.
(4) After all, her book H is for Hawk is a visceral depiction of the grief and depression she fell into after the sudden death of her father in 2007, and her salvation through falconry.
(5) He is also reported to like big game hunting and falconry.
(6) There are thousands of falconers in the UK ("there also are a lot of falconry widows out there"), and several firms use the technique for pest control in London, according to Bishop.
(7) Later, while spending weekends practicing falconry at Blow’s country estate, McQueen relished the contrast with his early foray into ornithology.
(8) For services to Falconry and the Conservation of Raptors.
(9) In one highly compressed volume, we have the working through of the most desperate grief, a potted history of falconry, a rumination on nature, and an essay on the life of White, a writer best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels The Once and Future King .
(10) She has written one other book, an academic history of falconry, but the story told in H is for Hawk is one that was deeply personal to Macdonald, and it took her almost seven years to put it on to paper.
(11) Cortisol and aldosterone levels were measured in plasma of eastern cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus) collected by three different methods, i.e., shooting, live-trapping and falconry.
(12) ‘There are divers Sorts and Sizes of Goshawks ,’ wrote Richard Blome in 1618, ‘which are different in Goodness, force and hardiness according to the several Countries where they are Bred; but no place affords so good as those of Moscovy , Norway , and the North of Ireland , especially in the County of Tyrone .’ But the qualities of goshawks were forgotten with the advent of Land Enclosure, which limited the ability of ordinary folk to fly hawks, and the advent of accurate firearms that made shooting, rather than falconry, high fashion.
(13) Van Vynck recruited Bishop to work on the Trafalgar Square clearance because his then job as head falconer at the English School of Falconry had given him plenty of experience of dealing with the public.
(14) The British Falconers’ Club worked out that for the cost of importing a goshawk from the Continent for falconry, you could afford to bring in a second bird and release it.
(15) She published poetry in her 20s, produced a cultural history of falconry a decade ago, and sees herself as someone who can act as a bridge between academia and the general reader.
(16) Her references to 17th-century disquisitions on falconry sit surprisingly easily in her memoir.
(17) In 2008, Unesco extended its reach to intangible customs and traditions including falconry, French gastronomy and the Spanish flamenco.
(18) Once you start [being interested in falconry], you just keep going and going."
(19) She says she was bullied at school because she was solitary and fascinated by falconry.
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Definition:
(n.) A short strap of leather or silk secured round the leg of a hawk, to which the leash or line, wrapped round the falconer's hand, was attached when used. See Illust. of Falcon.
Example Sentences:
(1) United had been spared and, in the next attack, Jesse Lingard turned Michael Carrick’s crossfield pass across the penalty area for Rooney, so beleaguered recently, to head in the team’s first goal for six hours and 44 minutes of play.
(2) However, Teryn Norris and Jesse Jenkins, of the Breakthrough Institute , argue that as the recession has deepened, Obama has been relatively silent on cap and trade emissions schemes similar to the one operating in Europe in which companies can trade permits to emit carbon dioxide.
(3) Jesse Eisenberg, who played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network and starred in Now You See Me earlier this year, will play Lipsky.
(4) As such, we treat any such allegations with the utmost seriousness and we will be contacting Jess to offer to discuss her concerns in full.” Sutton, in his own statement, said: “I wholeheartedly deny that I said or did anything other than act with complete professionalism in my dealings with Jess.
(5) Danny Welbeck, Chris Smalling and Fabio all scored before the break in a stanza run by Anderson and decorated with flashes of artistry by the promising Wilfried Zaha, before Adnan Januzaj and then Jesse Lingard scored in the second half.
(6) British Cycling under the spotlight after Jess Varnish allegations Read more Opening up right now are big opportunities for women’s sport and its sponsors.
(7) But in recent years, directors have sought out the likes of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood ( There Will Be Blood ), the Chemical Brothers ( Hanna ) and Nick Cave ( The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford ).
(8) Among the victims are the Carradale, Broadmore and Normanton brickworks, which have shut recently along with Jesse Shirley, a Stoke-on-Trent pottery firm, which had been trading for 191 years.
(9) We have struggled for years to get mental health support for Jess.
(10) Their titles, like Jesse In Mexico and Hank In Pursuit, point to their primary use as emotional catalysts for the show rather than standalone pieces of music, though diehard fans will likely still covet it alongside their Breaking Bad cufflinks and Converse trainers .
(11) Jesse Owens (famous Negro athlete) lives at the end of the block for a time but takes his children to another paediatrician.
(12) Jesse Shapiro, Wash and sanitation advisor, USAid , Washington DC, USA.
(13) The arrivals of the Swede and Mkhitaryan also concern Jesse Lingard, Memphis Depay, Juan Mata, Ander Herrera, Ashley Young, Adnan Januzaj, Andreas Pereira and James Wilson.
(14) • All our coverage on Man of Steel 2 • Interview: Jesse Eisenberg
(15) From Tory philosopher Phillip Blond 's attacks on "individualism", to Tory MP Jesse Norman's criticism of monopolistic " crony capitalism ", to Ferdinand Mount – once head of Thatcher's Downing Street policy unit – worrying about the concentration of wealth among " the new few ", there is strengthening disquiet at some of the forces the 80s set in motion.
(16) Jess Phillips has resigned as a parliamentary private secretary to the shadow education team.
(17) Gold and silver could be between them – Jess and Kat.” Schippers became European 100m and 200m champion in Zurich in 2014 but, even then, “I still liked the heptathlon.
(18) To keep the dream team entirely intact, Jesse Eisenberg should really have been hired to play Steve Jobs.
(19) Neil Heslin, whose six-year-old son Jesse was among the victims of the 14 December massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut, joined other Newtown parents in a public display of outrage at the failure of Congress to move rapidly towards reform.
(20) I still watch New Girl and I can’t stand Jess, so I can at least give wonderfully bitchy Gretchen a shot, if only in honor of the dearly departed B in Apartment 23.