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Look up: Kestrel

  1. Kestrel
    Kestrel is old slang for worthless, base.
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  2. Kestrel
    Kestrel is a cultivated variety of potato.
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  3. kestrel
    [n] - small Old World falcon that hovers in the air against a wind
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  4. Kestrel
    Kes'trel (kĕs'trĕl) noun [ See Castrel .] (Zoology) A small, slender European hawk ( Falco alaudarius ), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called wi...
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  5. kestrel
    <zoology> A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its colour is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species. ... This word is often used in contempt, as of a ...
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  6. kestrel
    noun small Old World falcon that hovers in the air against a wind
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  7. Kestrel
    • (n.) A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. kestrel
    any of several small birds of prey of the genus Falco (family Falconidae) known for their habit of hovering while hunting. Kestrels prey on large ...
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  9. Kestrel
    Kestrel is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Rattling Bird` Where is it used? The name Kestrel is mainly used In English. The name Kestrel doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Kestrel seems to be unique!
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  10. Kestrel
    Kestrel is old slang for worthless, base.
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  11. kestrel
    • small North American falcon
    • small Old World falcon that hovers in the air against a wind

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  12. Kestrel
    The kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) or Windhover is a small British bird of the falcon family Falconidae. The kestrel has brown plumage that is lightly barred with black, while the head, neck and tail are bluish grey. The kestrel generally eats mice and insects, though they will sometimes take small bir...
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  13. kestrel
    Small hawk that breeds in Europe, Asia, and Africa. About 30 cm/1 ft long, the male has a bluish-grey head and tail and is light chestnut brown back with black spots on the back and pale with black spots underneath. The female is slightly larger and reddish brown above, with bars; she doe...
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  14. Kestrel
    The name `kestrel`, (from french crécerelle, derivative from crécelle i.e. Ratchet) is given to several different members of the falcon genus, Falco. Kestrels are most easily distinguished by their typical hunting behaviour which is to hover at a height of around over open country and s...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kestrel

  15. Kestrel
    (Marvel Comics) image= --> `John Wraith`, also known as `Kestrel`, is a character in the Marvel comics fictional universe. In the 2009 superhero movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Wraith is portrayed by will.i.am. Fictional character biography: Kestrel was a member of Team X and later a ...
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  16. Kestrel
    (software) `Kestrel` (previously known as `Scarling`) is a light-weight persistent message queue server written in Scala that speaks the memcached protocol. It was originally developed by Twitter and is a port of Starling, which is written in Ruby. External links: References:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kestrel

  17. Kestrel
    (dinghy) The `Kestrel` was the first sailing dinghy especially designed to have a fibreglass hull<ref name=Kestrel>http://www.kestrel.org.uk Kestrel Owner`s Association - Homepage. Retrieved on 2008-08-18.-->. It was designed in 1955, by Ian Proctor. After a slow start, due to resistance t...
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