| 单词 | sarcel feather |
| 释义 | > as lemmassarcel feather a. A pinion feather of a hawk's wing. Also sarcel feather. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > hawk > parts of > feathers > of wing beam-feather1486 sarcel1486 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. bj The federis that sum call the pynyon feder, of a noder fowle, of an hawke: it is calde the Sercell. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 272 Within sixe or seuen dayes shee will cast..hir sarcels or flagges. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 177 The Marline, Lanar, and the gentle-Tercell, Th' Ospray, and Saker, with a nimble Sarcell Follow the Phœnix. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cerceau,..the Sercell, or Sarcell (feather) of a hawkes wing. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Sercil. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xi. 237/1 The Sarcell Feathers, are the extream pinion Feathers in the Hawks Wing. < as lemmas |
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