heroner

plural heroners

1. historicalA hawk used in hunting herons.

   Old Joan was a noted heroner. She was never flown at any other quarry, and she had been brought out on the chance of finding a heron at siege.

   1897, D. H. Madden, The Diary of Master William Silence: A study of Shakespeare & of Elizabethan sport, published 1969, page 213

   2 more examples

   Brough-mill, which in the reign of Edward III. belonged to the family of Strelley, was then held by the service of attending the King on horseback whenever he should come into Derbyshire, carrying a heroner (or heron-falcon [footnote: Falco heronarius]).

   1817, Daniel Lysons, Samuel Lysons, Magna Britannia, volume 5: Derbyshire, page 184

   Whilst the sound yet lingered above their heads, came another band, of falconers and huntsmen, prickers and varlets, with hawk and heroner, hound and spaniel, so many and well-appointed, that they seemed like a little army.

   1845, The Metropolitan, volume 42, London: Saunders and Otley, page 101