tiercel noun.
['tɪǝs(ǝ)l] Also tercel
['tǝ:s(ǝ)l].
ME.[Old French
tercel,
terçuel (mod.
tiercel) from Proto-Romance dim. of Latin
tertius THIRD adjective etc.; perh. so named from the belief that the third egg of a clutch produced a male, or from the male being a third smaller than the female. Spelling and pronunc. infl. by mod. French or
TIERCE noun1.]
Falconry. The male of any kind of falcon;
esp. that of the peregrine falcon (in full
tiercel-gentle) or of the goshawk.
Also
■ tiercelet
[-lɪt] noun LME. [TahlilGaran] English Dictionary ▲