▪ I. sakeret Obs. or arch.
(ˈseɪkərɪt)
Forms: 5 sacrette, 5–7 sacret, 6 sagaret, 7 sakret, sacaret, sakaret, 8– sakeret.
[a. F. sacret, dim. of sacre saker1.]
The male of the ‘saker’.
| c 1400 Mandeville (1839) xxii. 238 Faukons gentyls, Lanyeres, Sacres, Sacrettes. 1486 Sacret, 1606 sagaret [see saker1]. 1610 W. Folkingham Art of Survey iv. iii. 83 Hawlkes: as the Falcon,..Saker, Sakret, Marline. 1655 Walton Angler i. (1661) 13 Of the first kind [sc. long-winged hawks], there be chiefly in use amongst us..the Saker and Sacaret. 1688 R. Holme Armoury ii. 236/1 A Sacret or Sakaret is the male of a Saker or Sacre. 1721 Bailey Sakeret, the Male of a Saker Hawk. And in later Dicts. |
▪ II. sakeret
obs. var. pa. tense and pa. pple. of sacre v.