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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf.

a young bird,

(Zool.)

(a)

The European kite.

(b)

The buzzard.

(c)

The marsh harrier.

[Prov. Eng.]

Noun.

(Naut.)

See

[Obs.]

puttock ‎(plural puttocks)

(now Britain regional) Any of several birds of prey including the red kite, buzzard or marsh harrier
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xi:
  Some like to hounds, some like to Apes, dismayd, / Some like to Puttockes, all in plumes arayd: / All shap't according their conditions […]
(nautical) The futtock