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† ˈbawrel, ˈbawret Obs.
[Of unknown origin: some compare It. ‘barletta a tree falcon, a hobby’; the Corpus Gloss. has ‘bariulus reagufinc,’ some kind of finch. Cf. also bawtere.]
According to 18th c. dictionaries, the female and male respectively of a kind of hawk; see quot.
1706Phillips, Bawrel, a kind Hawk, that for Size and Shape, is somewhat like the Lanner, but has a longer Body and Sails. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Hawk, [The] Bawrel [has] her Bawret. 1755in Johnson, and mod. dicts. |