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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375, 1450-1597
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Falconar(e, -er(e, n. Also: falcovnar, -coneyr, fauk-, faucuner, -coner. [ME. falconer, fauconer, etc., OF. faul-, fauconnier.] A falconer.(a) 1360 Exchequer Rolls II. 17.
Compotum Elesei Falconar 1459 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 588.
Johanne Falconare de Murreffstoune 1488 Treasurer's Accounts I. 89.
To Callindar the falconar, to by him a hors 1512–3 Ib. IV. 405.
To David, falconar and thre vther falconeris, lvj s. 1513 Doug. v. Prol. 4.
Gladys … The falconeyr rych ryver onto fleyn 1556 Liber Calchou 483.
Be deliuerance maid to George Campbell falcovnar per preceptum vj lib. a1586 Maitland Ho. Seytoun 41.
[He] tuk grit plesour in halking and was haldin the best falconarattrib. 1597 Edinburgh Testaments XXX. 161 b.
Four falconer bagis at iiij s. the pece(b) c 1190 Liber Calchou 128.
Petro le faukuner 1359 Exchequer Rolls I. 612.
Compotum Helisei Faucuner 1371 Rot. Scotiæ 943/2.
Willelmum Fauconer 1450 Exchequer Rolls V. 419.
Et Farnle, fauconer, de mandato regis, xx s. c 1563 Reg. Panmure I. p. xxxvi.
Them quha knawes the grownd and trawel of faukoners
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