Old Pros
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Hawkers
Someone who tends or trains hawks. A falconer.
"The
hawkers and fowlers
when they have caught the fowl,
divide the bootie with the hawks."
Philemon Holland, Pliny's historie of the world,
commmonly called the natural historie (1601).
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