intermewern.
/ɪntəˈmjuːə/ Falconry. ? Obsolete.figurative.1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow (4th impr.) sig. Fv The fourth and fift, shee's an intermewer, preyes for her selfe and ruffles all she reaches.
A hawk of the second year, after her first ‘mewing’ or moulting, and before she has the full third year's coat.
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1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 32 They are called (Entermewers) or Hawkes of the first cote, that is from the middle of May, till..December. Those Hawkes are called Entermewers, for that they cast the old, and haue new feathers, and they proue very good, and hardie Hawkes.
1680 London Gaz. No. 1491/4 A Tercel Gentle an Intermewer, lost a Month since in Staffordshire.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) v. 118 The distinctions of Eyess and Ramage Hawks of Sores and Entermewers.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Hawk The second [year] an Intermewer, the third a white Hawk.
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