fawkner

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English

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Etymology

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See falconer.

Noun

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fawkner (plural fawkners)

  1. (obsolete) A falconer.
    • a. 1631, John Donne, "Loves Diet"
      Now negligent of sports I lye,
      And now as other Fawkners use,
      I spring a mistresse, sweare, write, sigh and weepe:
      And the game kill'd, or lost, goe talk, and sleepe.

Middle English

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Noun

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fawkner

  1. Alternative form of fauconer
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