1. A short strap of leather or silk secured round the leg of a hawk, to which the leash or line, wrapped round the falconer's hand, was attached when used

Derived forms: jesses

Encyclopedia: Jess

• pap
• Pap smear
• Pap test
• papa
• Papa Doc
• papacy
• papaia
• papain
• papal
• papal bull
• papal cross
• papal infallibility
• papal nuncio
• Papal States
• Papanicolaou smear
• Papanicolaou test
• paparazzo
• Papaver
• Papaver alpinum
• Papaver argemone
• Papaver californicum
• Papaver heterophyllum
• Papaver nudicaule
• Papaver orientale
• Papaver rhoeas