Also stowe. A call addressed to a hawk by a falconer to make it come to his fist.
c. 1520. Skelton, Magnyf., 968. Stowe, byrde, stowe, stowe! It is best I fede my hawke now. Ibid., Ware the Hauke, 73. The fauconer … cryed, Stow, stow, stow!
1575. Turberv., Faulconrie, 182. Make them come from it [the perch] to your fist eyther much or little, with calling and chirping to them, saying: Towe, Towe, or Stowe, Stowe, as Falconers vse, and when they come feed them.
1621. Brathwait, Nat. Embassie, etc. 250. But stow bird stow, See now the game’s a foote.
1847. Halliwell (citing Gent. Rec., ii. 58).
