Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cancelier

Cancelier , intransitive verb

[French chanceler, Old French canseler, to waver, orig. to cross the legs so as not to fall; from the same word as English cancel.]

(Falconry) To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. [Obsolete] — Nares
He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced To cancelier. — Massinger

Cancelier , noun

(Falconry) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop. [Obsolete]
The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies, Make sundry canceliers ere they the fowl can reach. — Drayton

Also: Canceleer