soragen.
Obsolete exc. archaic.
The first year of a hawk. Also attributive.
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?a1400 in Harting Perfect Bk. Keping of Sparhawkes (1886) Introd. p. ix Carry your hauk much, especially in her sorage.
1486 Bk. St. Albans a vij b A Goshawke nor a tercell in thare sore aage haue nott thare mayles named.
1486 Bk. St. Albans b j b That first yere is calde hir sore aage.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 64 There are sundrie of them good in their soarage, but beyng once mewed proue nothing worthe.
1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes (1638) 4 Expect no lofty Hagard,..If in her downy Soreage, she but ruffe So strong a Dove, may it be thought enough.
1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 78 And as the Age of these Hawks is, so we name them, as, The first year a Soarage.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 236/2 A Soar Hawk..is called also a Sorage Hawk.
1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus iv. 41 (note) It becomes..a ‘soar-hawk,’ or ‘soarage’ when it has begun to prey for itself.]
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