tercel

The only difference being, that the victim then was a tercel gentle, and now it would be a white dove.

By the falcon is always understood the female, as distinguished from the tercel, or male, of the peregrine or goshawk.

The latter was probably called the tercel, or tiercel, from being about a third smaller than the falcon.

Shakespeare tells us to choose "a falcon or tercel for flying at the brook, and a hawk for the bush."

These he fastened firmly together, and set them securely within that window, by which the tercel would come to his lady.