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▪ I. canceˈleer, n. Hawking.
Forms: 7 cancelleer, -ere, canceleer, cancileer, -ier, cancilleere, chancelleer, 7–8 cancellier, 8 cancelier,
[a. the infinitive (taken subst.) of ONF. canceler, in mod.F. chanceler to swerve, shake to and fro, waver, totter, stagger, app. the same as OF. canceler, chanceler to place in the position of crossing bars or lattice-work, to cross; but since OF. had also es-canceler, es-chanceler, Littré takes the latter as the proper form in this sense, and explains it as:—L. *ex-cancellāre to escape out of cancelli, ‘sortir des barreaux, d'où chanceler’, and thinks that the use of the simple verb in the sense of the derivative was due to confusion. But the simple canceler is quite as old in this sense (11th c.).]
See quot. 1704.
1599Weever Epigr. iv. v. (N.) Nor with the Falcon fetch a cancelleer. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. xx, The fierce and eager hawks..Make sundry canceleers e'er they the fowl can reach. 1665Cotton Scarron. iv. (1741) 141 Full swift she flew till coming near Carthage, she made a Chancelleer, And then a Stoop. 1704Worlidge Dict. Rust. et Urb., Cancellier..when a light flown Hawk, in her stooping, turns two or three times upon the Wing, to recover herself before she seizes. 1823in Crabb Techn. Dict.
b. fig.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, cclvi, Enough if fame..Scorne to Stoope, in well-wing'd Verse, To Single Names, in fainting Canciliers. 1655L'Estrange Chas. I, 20 His cancellier, his fall being only from the first loft.
▪ II. canceˈleer, canceˈlier, v. Hawking.
[f. prec.]
Of a hawk: To turn (once or twice) upon the wing, in order to recover herself before striking.
1633Massinger Guardian i. i, The partridge sprung, He makes his stoop, but, wanting breath, is forced To cancelier. 1834M. Edgeworth Helen (Rtldg.) 166 Now right over the heron, and now she will canceleer.
b. fig. To turn aside, to swerve or digress.
a1697Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719) V. 407, I will take the Boldness to cancelleer, and give a general Description of these Parts of England. |