noun
- the sport of hunting with falcons, hawks, eagles, etc.; hawking.
- the art of training hawks to hunt.
noun
- the art of keeping falcons and training them to return from flight to a lure or to hunt quarry
- the sport of causing falcons to return from flight to their trainer and to hunt quarry under his or her direction
1570s, from French fauconnerie, from faucon (see falcon).