[f. JESS sb.] trans. To put the jesses on (a hawk). Also fig.

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1860.  Whyte-Melville, Holmby Ho., 263. With her own fair hands, she jessed and hooded ‘Dewdrop,’ and took her from her perch.

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1894.  ‘G. Egerton,’ Keynotes, ii. 45. My heart had been a free, wild, shy thing, jessed by my will.

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