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# tiercel

«tiercel» in Mova's school dictionary: **a male hawk or falcon, especially in falconry, the sport…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a tiercel, tiercels; also tercel)

### meaning for a pupil

A tiercel (also spelled tercel) is a male hawk or falcon, especially in falconry, the sport of training hawks to hunt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiercel/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In falconry and nature books, «tiercel» is the old special word for the male bird, which is about a third smaller than the female (the name comes from the old word for «third»). Children may meet it in bird-of-prey displays, historical stories and old poems. Phrases: «a tiercel peregrine», «falcon and tiercel».

### examples

- The falconer flew a tiercel peregrine at the show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiercel/#x1)
- A tiercel is smaller than the female falcon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiercel/#x2)
- The tiercel landed on the falconer's glove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiercel/#x3)
- In the old poem, the knight kept a tiercel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiercel/#x4)
- The female falcon is bigger than the tiercel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiercel/#x5)
- The tiercel brought food to the nest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiercel/#x6)

### note

Rare, specialist word. Also «tercel». Female hawks and falcons are usually larger than males — the opposite of many other birds.

### Trees and pragmatics

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