Definitions for kestrel

kestrel kes·trel

Spelling: [kes-truh l]
IPA: /ˈkɛs trəl/

Kestrel is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in kestrel (eeklrst).

Definitions for kestrel

noun

  1. a common small falcon, Falco tinnunculus, of northern parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, notable for hovering in the air with its head to the wind.
  2. any of several related small falcons, as the American kestrel, F. sparverius.

Origin of kestrel

1400-50; late Middle English castrell Middle French quercerelle, metathetic variant of crecerelle, of disputed orig.

Examples for kestrel

If, therefore, the beginner is not clever at the art, let him practise on a kestrel.

The crew of the kestrel consisted of less than fifty men, most of them Irishmen.

Then it falls, hangs for a moment in the air like a kestrel, and returns to its perch.

He had no home of his own, for his parents were dead; and this was not his first visit to kestrel.

She proved to be the “kestrel,” of 18 guns, Commander Holmes.

And yet at certain seasons the kestrel is as destructive in the covert as its congeners.

In October, 1908, I saw from the garden a kestrel persecuted by two rooks.

Mr. Collins brought a gun and shot a few birds, among them was a kestrel.

This is mainly white and so cannot be confounded with the kestrel.

Do you mean that I shall be appointed to the command of the kestrel?

Word Value for kestrel
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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