2. The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.

||Fal"cu*la (?), n. [L., a small sickle, a billhook.] (Zoˆl.) A curved

||and sharp- pointed claw.

Fal"cu*late (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or

claw of a falcon.

Fald"age (?), n. [LL. faldagium, fr. AS. fald, E. fold. Cf. Foldage.]

(O. Eng. Law) A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for

sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often

reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. Spelman.

Fald"fee` (?), n. [AS. fald (E. fold) + E. fee. See Faldage.] (O. Eng.

Law) A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his

own ground. Blount.

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