check a term in falconry, applied to a hawk when
she forsakes her proper game, and follows some other of inferior kind that crosses her in
her flight:
“check at every feather,”
TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 1. 61
;
“the staniel checks at it,”
TWELFTH NIGHT, ii. 5. 105.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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