Found 3 hits - Term: sacre, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sacre \sa"cre\, n.
see saker.
1913 webster
see also:
saker
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sacre \sa"cre\, v. t. f. sacrer. see sacred.
to consecrate; to make sacred. obs. --holland.
1913 webster
see also:
sacred
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
saker \sa"ker\ s=a"k~er, n. f. sacre cf. it. sagro, sp.
pg. sacre, either fr. l. sacer sacred, holy, as a
translation of gr. "ie`rax falcon, from "iero`s holy, or more
probably from ar. ,caqr hawk. written also sacar,
sacre.
1. zool.
a a falcon falco sacer native of southern europe and
asia, closely resembling the lanner.
1913 webster
note: the female is called chargh, and the male
charghela, or sakeret.
1913 webster
b the peregrine falcon. prov. eng.
1913 webster
2. mil. a small piece of artillery. --wilhelm.
1913 webster
on the bastions were planted culverins and sakers.
--macaulay.
1913 webster
the culverins and sakers showing their deadly
muzzles over the rampart. --hawthorne.
1913 webster
see also:
sacar sacre falco sacer chargh charghela sakeret
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