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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Gere-, Geir-falcon, n. [ME. gerfalcon, -faucoun (1382), etc., OF. gerfaucon.] A gerfalcon. —c1450-2 Howlat 319.
Geir falconnis, that gentilly in bewte haboundis, War deir dukis, and digne 1504 Treas. Acc. II. 444.
To ane man … [that] brocht tna gere falconis to the King

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