To enclose or confine, especially to shut up a hawk in a mew or cage during molting season.
Related to 'mew' (a cage for hawks), with the prefix 'em-' (to cause to be in). This falconry term comes from Middle English and Old French.
In falconry, hawks were kept in special cages called 'mews' during feather-molting, and 'emmew' was the precise verb for this confinement—now the term survives mainly in 'Mews,' the London street name.
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