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- obsoleteuncountableThe time between a hawk's being taken from the eyrie and first mewing or moulting its feathers.
If in her Downy Soreage She but ruff / So strong a Dove, may it be thought enough
1717, Francis Quarles, Divine Poems3 more examples
One Sparhawke had the Pinne this last yeare in her sore-age, and I tolde her Master of the happy proceeding I had with the Goshawke, and he did practise the same […]
1619, Edmund Bert, An Approved Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking[…] or lastly, after they have preyd for themselves (and then be called Sore-Hawkes, or Hawkes in their Soreage.)
1621, Gervase Markham, Hungers Preuention: or The Whole Art of Fowling By Water and LandIt often happens that a goshawk, or tiercel, who are good in their soarage, become worse after they are mewed; and the reason may be, because she was not cherished nor encouraged, to make her take delight in her soarage.
1744, The Sportsman's Dictionary
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