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# seel

«seel» in Mova's school dictionary: **To seel a hawk or falcon was to sew its eyelids shut for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (seel, seels, seeled, seeling) — old, rare

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old, falconry) To seel a hawk or falcon was to sew its eyelids shut for a while to tame it. This is not done today and is thought cruel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seel/#m1)

2) (old, poetry) Seel can mean to close someone's eyes, to blind them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seel/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Very rare: you will only meet it in old books, poems or history of falconry. Much more often you will hear its sound-alikes: «seal» (an animal; to close tightly) and «ceiling». If you see «seel» in a modern text, check whether it is a spelling mistake for «seal».

### examples

- In medieval times, falconers would seel a young hawk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seel/#x1)
- The old poem talks of night coming to seel the eyes of day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seel/#x2)
- The book explained that seeling hawks is no longer allowed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seel/#x3)
- Is «seel» a typo for «seal» in this sentence? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seel/#x4)
- Hunters once seeled falcons to calm them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seel/#x5)
- «Seel» is one of the rarest words in our dictionary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seel/#x6)

### note

Homophones: seel, seal, ceil (rare) all sound like /seel/. In almost every modern sentence the right word is «seal». It is also a surname. Not the same as German «Seele» (soul).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «seel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.