Definitions for falconry

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falconry fal·con·ry

Spelling: [fawl-kuh n-ree, fal-, faw-k Falconry is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 276 anagrams from letters in falconry (acflnory).

Definitions for falconry

noun

1. the sport of hunting with falcons, hawks, eagles, etc.; hawking.
2. the art of training hawks to hunt.

Origin of falconry

1565-75; falcon + -ry, modeled on French fauconnerie

Examples for falconry

But Beorn scowled, and one might see that his pride of falconry was hurt.

Like falconry and all that business, it has gone out of date.

Of course, at some excesses in falconry Conon draws the line.

The merlin when trained for falconry is usually flown at the skylark.

It was chiefly used as a term in falconry, and applied to hawks.

The peregrine falcon was one of those most frequently used in falconry.

He diverted himself with rural pastimes, especially with falconry.

I will get me to my drawer; in terms of falconry, my tiring.

He was a great sportsman, too, and wrote a book on falconry.

There were more than twenty falcons, of all sorts, in Vebba's falconry.