Hawking. Also 5 lewne; and see LOYN. [var. of LOYN.] A leash for a hawk.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, VI. xvi. Thenne was he ware of a Faucon … and longe lunys aboute her feete.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, B v b. The lewnes shulde be fastened to theym, with a payre of tyrettis.
1580. H. Gifford, Gilloflowers (1875), 90. In fancie’s lune I fast was cought.
1593. Greene, Mamillia, I. E 3. The closer shee couered the sparke, the more it kindled: yea, in seeking to vnlose the Lunes, the more she was intangled.
1611. Cotgr., Longe,… a hawkes lune or leash.
1895. ’Q’ [Quiller-Couch], Wandering Heath, 230. A gerfalcon lying with long lunes tangled about his feet.
