Forms: 5 lanret(t, 5–6 lanerette, 6 lanaret, 6–9 laneret, (6 -at), 7 lannaret, 7– lanneret. [ad. OF. and F. laneret in same sense.] The male of the lanner.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), I. 339. Hawkes that be called lanerettes [printed lauerettes].
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 286/2. Lanret, hauke, tardarius.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, D iv. Ther is a Lanare and a Lanrell [? read Lanrett]. And theys belong to a Squyer.
1495. Act 11 Hen. VII., c. 17. Laner lanerette or fawcon.
1575. Turberv., Faulconrie, 125. The myllane and the lanerette.
1637. T. Morton, New Eng. Canaan (1883), 196. At my first arrivall in those parts [I] practised to take a Lannaret, which I reclaimed.
1838. J. P. Kennedy, Rob of Bowl, xiv. 15. The falcone [was] bent to fly the cast of lanerets.
