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saker

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sa·ker  (skr)
n.
A Eurasian falcon (Falco cherrug) having brown plumage and often trained for falconry.
[Middle English sacre, from Old French, from Arabic aqr, probably from Turkic *soqur, falcon.]
saker [ˈseɪkə]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a large falcon, Falco cherrug, of E Europe and central Asia: used in falconry
[C14 sagre, from Old French sacre, from Arabic saqr]


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So that, Sancho, it will not do for us to uncover ourselves, for he who has us in charge will be responsible for us; and perhaps we are gaining an altitude and mounting up to enable us to descend at one swoop on the kingdom of Kandy, as the saker or falcon does on the heron, so as to seize it however high it may soar; and though it seems to us not half an hour since we left the garden, believe me we must have travelled a great distance.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
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