[f. JESS sb.] trans. To put the jesses on (a hawk). Also fig.
1860. Whyte-Melville, Holmby House, 262–3. With her own fair hands she jessed and hooded ‘Dewdrop,’ and took her from her perch.
1893. ‘G. Egerton,’ Keynotes, ii. 45. My heart had been a free, wild, shy thing, jessed by my will.
