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Definition: Falconry |
FalconryNoun1. The art of training falcons to hunt and return. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "falconry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references) |
Etymology: Falconry \Fal"con*ry\, noun. [Compare to the French expression fauconnerie. See Falcon.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: FalconrySynonym: Hawking. (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Traditional views of falconry state that the art got its start in Asia, however beyond opinions archaeologists have found solid proof of falconry in the Middle East dating back to the 16th century BC. Though these renderings of raptors atop a clenched fist are, according to some researchers, purely religious it puts a shadow of doubt on those traditional views.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Falconry."
Crosswords: Falconry |
| English words defined with "falconry": Accipiter gentilis ♦ Falco columbarius, Falco peregrinus, falconer ♦ goshawk ♦ hawker ♦ Merlin ♦ peregrine, peregrine falcon, pigeon hawk ♦ Shahin, Stanielry ♦ To rake out, To take the air ♦ Varvel. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "falconry": Gyrfalcon, Gerfalcon ♦ Hawk nor Buzzard. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | This sight reminded me of falconry and what nobleness and poetry are associated with that sport. |
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| "Falconry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.97% of the time. "Falconry" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.97% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
falconry | 482 |
falconry equipment | 21 |
falconry in mexico | 8 |
medieval falconry | 7 |
falconry book | 7 |
american falconry | 6 |
falconry hood | 6 |
falconry school | 5 |
northwoods falconry | 5 |
falconry picture | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "falconry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gjueti me fajkoj. (various references) | |
Arabic | البزدرة فن تدريب البزاة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лов със соколи, дресиране на соколи. (various references) | |
Czech | sokolnictví. (various references) | |
Danish | falkeopdraet. (various references) | |
Dutch | valkerij. (various references) | |
Finnish | haukkametsästys (hawking). (various references) | |
French | fauconnerie. (various references) | |
German | Falkenjagd (Hawking). (various references) | |
Greek | ιερακοτροφία, ιερακοθηρία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אלוף בזים, בזירות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | solymászat (hawking). (various references) | |
Italian | falconeria. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鷹狩り , "鷹 (hawking). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たかがり, ほうよう (Buddhist memorial service, comprehension, embrace, hawking, holding in one's arms, hug, implication, magnanimity, toleration). (various references) | |
Manx | shawkeyrys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alconryfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | falconete (ninepins), falcoaria (falderal). (various references) | |
Romanian | vânãtoare cu şoimi. (various references) | |
Russian | соколиная охота. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sokolarstvo. (various references) | |
Spanish | halconería, cetrería (hawking). (various references) | |
Swedish | falkjakt (Hawking). (various references) | |
Turkish | doğanla avlanma, doğancılık, şahinle avlanma. (various references) | |
Ukranian | соколине полювання. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thuật nuôi chim ưng sự đi săn bằng chim ưng, nghề nuôi chim ưng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Falconry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: falconary, falconery, fulforn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "falconry" (pronounced fa"lkunrē) |
| 4 | -u n r ē | citizenry, freemasonry, masonry, weaponry. |
| 3 | -n r ē | Henry. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-l-n-o-r-y" | |
-2 letters: calory, crayon, falcon, flacon. | |
-3 letters: acorn, carny, carol, claro, clary, coaly, coral, corny, crony, cyano, fancy, farcy, flora, focal, foray, franc, loran, narco, racon, rayon, royal. | |
-4 letters: acyl, arco, aryl, calf, calo, carl, carn, clan, clay, clon, cloy, coal, cola, coly, cony, corf, corn, cory, cyan, fano, farl, faro, flan, flay, floc, foal, fora, fray, lacy, loaf, loan, loca, lorn, lory, narc, nary, ofay, only, oral, orca, racy, roan, rolf, yarn. | |
-5 letters: any, arc, arf, can, car, cay, col, con, cor, coy, cry, fan, far, fay, fly, fon, for, foy, fro, fry, lac, lar, lay, nay, nor, oaf, oar, oca, ora, orc, ran, ray, roc, rya, yar, yon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-l-n-o-r-y" | |
+1 letter: gyrfalcon. | |
+2 letters: gyrfalcons. | |
+3 letters: conformably. | |
+4 letters: forensically, fractionally, frictionally. | |
+5 letters: confabulatory, cycloparaffin, honorifically, uncomfortably, unconformably. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 6C 63 6F 6E 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- .-.. -.-. --- -. .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101100 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a l c o n r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 006C 0063 006F 006E 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4067786981808491 |
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