sarcel

From Old French cercel, French cerceau, Latin circellus, diminutive of circulus. See circle.

sarcel (plural sarcels)

1. One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, especially a hawk.

• sarcelly, sarcelled

• “sarcel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Casler, Clares, carles, clears, lacers, sarcle, scaler, sclera