falconer
nounUK /ˈfɒl.kən.ə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈfælkənɚ/
Etymology From Middle English fauconer, from Old French falconer, fauconer, from faucon (“falcon”).
1
A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey.
- And to add force to his remonstrances, he conferred a cuff or two on the negligent attendant of the hawks, who, shouting rather louder than was necessary under all the circumstances, brought the master falconer to his assistance.1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 83:
2
One who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
- Synonyms
- hawker
- Derived terms
- underfalconer
- Related terms
- falconry