Meaning & use
Seeled
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Archaic term meaning sewed shut the eyelids of a hawk as part of falconry training; more broadly, blinded or closed up.
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The falconer seeled the young hawk's eyes to calm it during early training.
Shakespeare wrote of night that 'seels up' the eye of pitiful day.
A note on using this word
A falconry term, from French 'ciller' (to close the eyes); Shakespeare used it figuratively several times, notably in Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra.
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