Gentle – Grey
Gentle
The special title of the peregrine, which could only be possessed by noblemen.
Ger-Falcon.-Falco gyrfalco. The Scandinavian variety of the large Northern falcons. In plumage somewhat like the peregrine (q.v.), but bluer upon the flanks. It nests in Scandinavia.
Get in. To go up to the hawk when it has killed.
VOL. II
Gorge
(1) A full meal given to the hawks once or twice a week. (2) The crop. (3) Verb: to feed heavily.
Goshawk
Falco palumbarius. The largest of the short-winged hawks, or hawks proper. proper. It is chiefly used for hawking pheasants and rabbits.
The back is brown, the breast, of the adult bird, white, barred with brown; salmon-colour streaked with dark brown in the young bird.
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Greenland Falcon
-Falco candicans. variety of the ger-falcon. It may be distinguished by the greater preponderance of white in its plumage.
Gyr-Falcon.- [See GER-FALCON.]
Gobble
A ball played too hard at the hole which nevertheless goes in.
Green
Synonymous with Links or Course; also used as a contraction for putting-green.
Grief
When a player has played his ball into a hazard of any description he is said to be in grief. [GOLF
Grip
First, the upper part of the club shaft gripped by the player; second, the manner of gripping the club; third, a narrow ditch on the course used as a drain.
Glamorganshire
Hensol Castle; Margam Abbey; Penrice Castle.
HAMPSHIRE.-Heron Court; Vinney Ridge, New Forest; Wolmer Forest.
Gaskin
That part of a horse's hind-leg between the hock and the junction of the leg with the body. Also specifically called the leg, and sometimes the thigh, or the false thigh.
Goose-rumped
A horse with buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup; tail set low.
Common in Barbs or Spaniards.
Grey
The colour of coats that are composed of a mixture of black and white hairs, varying in proportion as the horse is dark or light grey, the coat growing lighter with age.