falconelle (falkonel)

Same as falconet, 2. falconer (fa'kn-er), n. [Spelling altered as in falcon; early mod. E. fauconer, faulconer; follows the sport of fowling with hawks. Hee is much delighted with pleasures of the field, for which in Græcia and Natolia he hath forty you sand Fal coners; his Hunts-men are not much fewer. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 290. The person who had the care of the hawks is denomi nated the falconer , but never I believe the hawker. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 28.