soreage

English

Etymology

See sore.

Noun

soreage (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The time between a hawk's being taken from the eyrie and first mewing or moulting its feathers.
   • 1619, Edmund Bert, An Approved Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking:

     One Sparhawke had the Pinne this last yeare in her sore-age, and I tolde her Master of the happy proceeding I had with the Goshawke, and he did practise the same […]

   • 1621, Gervase Markham, Hungers Preuention: or The Whole Art of Fowling By Water and Land:

     […] or lastly, after they have preyd for themselves (and then be called Sore-Hawkes, or Hawkes in their Soreage.)

   • 1717, Francis Quarles, Divine Poems:

     If in her Downy Soreage She but ruff / So strong a Dove, may it be thought enough

   • 1744, The Sportsman's Dictionary:

     It often happens that a goshawk, or tiercel, who are good in their soarage, become worse after they are mewed; and the reason may be, because she was not cherished nor encouraged, to make her take delight in her soarage.