var. LANNARD Obs., a kind of falcon.
1550. J. Coke, Eng. & Fr. Heralds, viii. (1877), 60. We have hawkes of the towre, as leonardes, leonerettes, fawcons [etc.].
1623. Cockeram, Eng. Dict., III. Hawks, A Leonard, the male is called a Leneret.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Leonard Hawk, a kind of Hawk, so call’d by Fowlers.
