lanner
(ˈlænə(r))
Forms: 5–7 laner(e, -yer(e, (5 lanare, 6 lanor), 6–7 lanier, 6 lanar, 7 lannar, 6– lanner.
[ad. F. lanier, app. a subst. use of the OF. lanier cowardly.
Cf. the med.L. synonym tardarius, and the description ‘le lannier..est mol et sans courage’, quoted by Godef. s.v.]
A species of falcon, found in countries bordering on the Mediterranean, Falco lanarius or F. feldeggi. In Falconry, the female of this species.
| c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) xxv. 117 Gentill fawcouns, laneres, sagres, sperhawkes. 1486 [see lanneret]. 1575 Turberv. Faulconrie 114 You muste haue a gentle Lanner. 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 720 The Marlin, Lanar, and the gentle Tercell. 1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan (1883) 198 The use whereof in other parts makes the Lannars there more bussardly then they be in New England. 1676 Lond. Gaz. No. 1127/4 Lost Aug. 27. at night, a young Lanner Nyes Hawk without Bells or Jesses. 1766 Pennant Zool. (1768) I. 134 Except the Lanner none seem to have been noted among the British birds by any of our countrymen. 1834 R. Mudie Brit. Birds (1841) I. 87 The Lanner (Falco Lanarius) bears some resemblance to the peregrine, but it is smaller. 1852 R. F. Burton Falconry Indus ii. 18 The female was called a Lanner, the male a Lanneret. 1860 Longfellow Wayside Inn, Crew Long Serpent i, Downward fluttered sail and banner as alights the screaming lanner. |
| attrib. 1686 tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia i. 82 Lanner-Hawks, Gos-Hawks, Hobbies. 1873 Tristram Moab ii. 32 A pair of lanner falcons. |