sarcel

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, especially a hawk.
    — If a ſarcell, or other feathers be broken aboue the quyll, towards the poynt of yͤ fethers twoo or three fingers bredth, you muſt cut it off with a ſharpe penknife, aſlope, and (as they ſay) a ſwaſhe, ⁊ then take another feather to the ſame, cutting it in like manner, as you did the other, ſo as it may fitte with yͤ ſame feather, both for length and cutte.

词形变化

sarcels plural

词源

From Old French cercel, French cerceau, Latin circellus, diminutive of circulus. See circle.
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