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Pronunciation: /mjuː/
Falconry

noun

(usually mews)
  • a cage or building for trained hawks, especially while they are moulting.

verb

  • 1 [no object] (of a trained hawk) moult: the eyasses clung dully to their leashes as if they were mewing
  • 2 [with object] confine (a trained hawk) to a cage or building while moulting: Raoul orders his tent to be pitched and his hawks to be mewed
  • confine (someone) in a restricting place or situation: a lovely wife mewed up in an Oxfordshire farmhouse

Origin:

late Middle English: from Old French mue, from muer 'to moult', from Latin mutare 'to change'