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Alternative form of alerion [(heraldry) A heraldic eagle, especially one displayed without legs/feet or beak.]
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(countable, uncountable) A disease of geese in which the last joint of the wing becomes twisted, causing the wing feathers to point laterally outwards; a wing of this kind.
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Obsolete form of eyrie. [The nest of a bird of prey.]
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The catching of small birds at night by lighting a fire near their roost, then scaring them awake whereupon they fly towards the flames and can be caught in nets on poles.
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A method of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost so that the birds fly towards the light.
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(archaic) The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe.
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A steep cliff with numerous small shelves that serve as nesting locations for bird colonies.
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(aviation) A collision between a bird and an aircraft, especially one that causes an accident.
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Alternative spelling of birdcage [(countable) A cage to keep pet or zoological specimen birds in.]
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Alternative form of birdnest
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A device placed outdoors to supply food to birds.
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A small house for birds.
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Alternative form of bird table [A construction with a tablelike surface, placed outdoors to supply food to birds.]
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(rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
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A hidden location from which one can observe birds while remaining unseen.
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(falconry) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
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A captive bird used by hunters to lure free-flying birds into a snare or trap.
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A hawk's turning motion in midair, often to make a second stoop toward missed prey.
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(falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds. [from 15th c.]
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(falconry) Clipping the beak or talons of a bird.
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A trimming of cock feathers on a woman's hat.
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A trap from which waterfowl may be hunted.
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(falconry) The fighting of hawks with each other.
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Initialism of department of fish and wildlife.
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(rare) Alternative spelling of eyrie [The nest of a bird of prey.]
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To hunt with a falcon or falcons.
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(military slang) A civilian.
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(falconry) A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small thread-like worms and of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein.
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To hunt for finches, to go finching.
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(transitive, slang) To gently accelerate (an automobile or machine), or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
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(falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
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Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.
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The practice of hunting using hawks.
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To catch larks (type of bird).
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(falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
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(transitive, obsolete, chiefly falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.
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(transitive, chiefly falconry) To train (a raptor or other type of bird) to become accustomed to the presence of people; to man.
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(falconry) A large-scale hack, or facility for releasing juvenile raptors.
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(falconry) A place where birds of prey are housed.
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(obsolete) A young hawk; an eyas.
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The periodic procreative desire manifested in the spring by birds, etc.
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(heraldry) An imaginary heraldic creature with an eagle's head, a short tail, and sometimes wings.
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(ornithology) A cage in which a bird experiencing migratory restlessness is kept in order to observe the direction of its migratory impulse.
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A collective noun for ducks when they are on water.
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(zoology) A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins.
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(falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
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Scratching the ground for food, as domestic fowl or other gallinaceous birds.
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(countable) A place where rats are housed in large numbers, usually for the purpose of breeding
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(obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
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(hunting) A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket.
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The oystercatcher, so called from its shrill cries.
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(falconry) To sew together the eyes of a young hawk.
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Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.
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A place where certain species of male birds, especially the woodcock and capercaillie, congregate to sing and display themselves, in order to attract a female.
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A hunter of snipe (the bird).
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(obsolete) The time between a hawk's being taken from the eyrie and first mewing or moulting its feathers.
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(falconry, hunting, obsolete) A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap.
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(falconry) Bits of bone and tough organic material from a corpse given to hawks to abate their hunger.
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(informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
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(falconry, of a hawk) To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung.
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(falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
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Someone who makes watches for whales
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The common snipe, as distinguished from the smaller jacksnipe.
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(hunting) The shooting of birds in flight.
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