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Falconry vs Broadwing - What's the difference?

falconry | broadwing |

As nouns the difference between falconry and broadwing

is that falconry is the sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey, especially falcons and hawks while broadwing is in falconry, a bird of prey of the buzzard or eagle type, that has long wings and long flight feathers.

falconry

English

(wikipedia falconry)

Noun

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  • The sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey, especially falcons and hawks.
  • * 1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=619143512&textreg=1&query=+falconry&id=ThoWald]
    • ...looking up, I observed a very slight and graceful hawk, like a night-hawk, alternately soaring like a ripple and tumbling a rod or two over and over, showing the underside of its wings, which gleamed like a satin ribbon in the sun, or like the pearly inside of a shell. This sight reminded me of falconry and what nobleness and poetry are associated with that sport.

    broadwing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • In falconry, a bird of prey of the buzzard or eagle type, that has long wings and long flight feathers.