Cancelier
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In falconry, cancelier, or canceleer, is the turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop.
“ The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies,
Make sundry canceliers ere they the fowl can reach.”
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- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
