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terbic | terbinafine | terbium | terbium metal | terce | Tercel | tercelet | tercellene | tercentenary | tercentennial | tercet

Tercel

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Noun
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ter=cel

CIDE DICTIONARY

Terceln. 
     See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Tercel, n. (also tiercel) Falconry the male of the hawk, esp. a peregrine or goshawk.

Etymology
ME f. OF tercel, ult. a dimin. of L tertius third, perh. from a belief that the third egg of a clutch produced a male bird, or that the male was one-third smaller than the female

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