jess

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jess englanniksi

  1. A short strap fastened around the leg of a bird used in falconry, to which a leash may be fastened.

  2. {{quote-text|en|year=1486|author=Juliana Berners|title=The booke of hauking, huntyng and fysshyng|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16395.0001.001|year_published=1566|location=London

  3. (RQ:Marlowe Edward 2)

  4. (RQ:Shakespeare Othello) If I do prove her haggard,Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,I’ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,To pray at fortune.

  5. 1686, (w), ''The Gentlemans Recreation'', Part 2, Chapter 24 “Certain Terms of Art used in Falconry, with an Explanation thereof, Alphabetically set down,” p. 62,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28396.0001.001

  6. (quote)
  7. (quote-book)(long )es, (long )he has an ill habit of the wor(long )t kind.

  8. To fasten a strap around the leg of a hawk.

  9. (alt form) (the mineral).

  10. (alt form) (the color).

  11. (pronunciation spelling of)

  12. (alt form)

  13. yes (gloss)