falconer

IPA: fˈæɫkʌnɝ

A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey for taking birds or game.
One who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
A surname originating as an occupation.
A village in Ellicott, Chautauqua County, New York, United States.

Examples of "falconer" in Sentences

"The falconer is a professor of something, so both are possibilities..."
We usually call a falconer who keeps that kind of hawk [the goshawk] an austringer.
There's a reason for this; becoming a licensed falconer is a two-year process, involving an apprenticeship, tests, and many other requirements.
Mr. Graves's assistant is a bearded Afghan falconer, 49-year-old Mohammed Arif, who was a mujahedeen fighter in the 1980s when Bagram was a Soviet base.
The film, which is everywhere is supposed to be by by the late Felix Rodriguez y Fuentes, a Spanish naturalist and falconer, for a TV series (maybe in the seventies?)
Dr. William Cornatzer, a dermatologist and falconer, saw a presentation about the potential dangers of lead at a board meeting of the Peregrine Fund, a group devoted to conserving birds of prey.
Michael M. Phillips/The Wall Street Journal Mr. Graves, right, heads out to check the snare lines at Bagram Airfield with interpreter Mohammed Ashraf, left, and Mohammed Arif, an Afghan falconer and trapper.