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falconet|ˈfɔːkənɪt|
Also 7 fau(l)conet.
[In sense 1 ad. It. falconetto in same sense (= Sp. falconete; cf. Fr. fauconneau), dim. of falcone falcon; in sense 2 f. falcon + -et1.]
1. A light piece of ordnance of various calibres, used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
1559Naval Report in Froude Hist. Eng. (1881) VI. 168 (Culverins) minions (and) falconets. a1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii. (1704) 343/2 A Faulconet. The Bore 2 inches. 1647Nye Gunnery 78 Fauconets. The mouth of the peece is 2 inches and a quarter high..the weight of the shot one pound 5 ounces. 1645N. Stone Enchir. Fortification 54 A Falconet..carries a 6 pound ball. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. x. 108 Planting little Falconets on the top of our Walls in Swivels. 1864Burton Scot Abr. II. ii. 142 With only a couple of falconets or two-pounders, as their whole artillery.
2. A pygmy falcon, especially one belonging to the genus Microhierax.
1851Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 180 The Crested Falconet (Lanius frontatus)..inhabits New Holland. Ibid., The falconets have a compressed beak almost as high as long. 1883E. W. Oates Birds Brit. Burmah II. 212 Micro⁓hierax fringillarius, the Black-legged Falconet. Ibid. 213 The Black-legged Falconet occurs in Tenasserim. 1931Discovery Nov. 348/1 The black-legged falconet (which breeds in holes). 1961O. L. Austin Birds of World 83/2 The falconets, or pygmy falcons, of the subfamily Poliohieracinae occur in South America, Malaya, the Philippines, and Africa. 1964Fisher & Peterson World of Birds 31/2 The Falconidae include..the tiny insect-hawking falconets, not much bigger than sparrows. |