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means The sport or practice of training a captive raptor — a falcon, hawk, or eagle — to hunt wild game and return to the handler's gloved fist.

from Traces back through Old French 'faucon' to Late Latin 'falco,' meaning falcon — a word some link to 'falx,' the Latin word for sickle, supposedly describing the bird's curved talons or hooked beak, though that connection is more suggestive than certain. The practice itself is far older than the word, with roots stretching back thousands of years across Central Asia and the Middle East before the vocabulary — and the aristocratic fashion for it — spread through medieval Europe.