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tiercel/ˈtiəs(ə)l/n. (also 亦作 tercel /ˈtɜ:s(ə)l/) the male of the hawk, esp. (in falconry) a peregrine or goshawk (尤指用于鹰猎的)雄鹰，雄苍鹰 [Middle English from Old French tercel, ultimately a diminutive of Latin tertius ‘third’, perhaps from a belief that the third egg of a clutch produced a male bird, or that the male was one-third smaller than the female] |