The winner

[Hutch]

No special name for these gloves that I can find: Northwoods Ltd.
<http://www.northwoodsfalconry.com/> calls them "gauntlets". Ian Vance
Falconry Equipment <http://www.falconryequipment.com/> calls them
simply "gloves". Mike's Falconry Supplies
<http://www.mikesfalconry.com/> refers to them as both "gloves" and as
"gauntlets" (depending on the style?). The article on falconry in
Encyclopaedia Brittanica Online refers to them as "hawking gloves".
<http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-215012/falconry>.

Lots of other falconry equipment has special names, but I guess that
gloves is gloves.

Interesting paragraph from that same EB article that mentions the same
Yeats poem:

   Falconers control trained hawks in flight with a combination of
visual or oral
   signals—-for example, walking in the direction they wish the hawk to follow
   or whistling—-so it is important that the trained hawk remain in sight, even
   if it is high and distant, and preferable that it be in close
enough proximity to
   hear a shout or a whistle. So essential is this communication between
   falconer and bird that the image of the falconer losing control is used in
   W.B. Yeats's "Second Coming" as a symbol of chaos and anarchy:

   Turning and turning in the widening gyre
   The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
   Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold....

   -- <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-215012/falconry>. Page 5 of 6:
   "The birds and the art > Hunting and training techniques". --

I had never understood quite *how* those lines described growing anarchy.

BB,
Hutch

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On 10/11/06, Ranjit Bhatnagar <ranjit at moonmilk.com> wrote:
> eLlIoTt said:
> > I bet what Ranjit's thinking of is Yeats's "The Second Coming":
> >
> > Turning and turning in the widening gyre
>
> Actually, I kept wanting the word to refer to the falconer's
> protective glove.  Is there another more ren-faire name for glove or
> gauntlet that looks like "guiver?"
>
> rrr, outgribing