yarakn.
/ˈjarak/ Falconry.
in yarak: (of a hawk) in proper condition for hunting.
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in yarak1855
1855 F. H. Salvin & W. Brodrick Falconry in Brit. Isles 105 The Goshawk..will not work at all unless in good temper and proper flying order, termed in the East ‘yarak’.
1855 F. H. Salvin & W. Brodrick Falconry in Brit. Isles 108 It requires about ten days to get this Hawk into ‘yarak’.
1900 E. B. Michell Art & Pract. Hawking xii. 162 Unless the hawk was in first-rate condition,—in what is called ‘screaming yarak’.
1901 R. Kipling Kim x. 239 He's in yarak Plumed to the very point.
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