Meanings
plural passagers
- falconryA bird in its first year.
1 more example
He understood that once Cully had slept in freedom for a whole night he would be wild again and irreclaimable. Cully was a passager. But if the poor Wart could only mark him to roost, and if Hob would only arrive then with a dark lantern, they might still take him that night by climbing the tree, while he was sleepy and muddled with the light.
1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter II, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone)
Origin
Apparently from passage + -er.
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Cite this entry
passager. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/passager
“passager.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/passager. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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