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courser1 n 1. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Hunting) a person who courses hounds or dogs, esp greyhounds 2. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Hunting) a hound or dog trained for coursing courser2 n (Individual Sports & Recreations / Horse Training, Riding & Manège) Literary a swift horse; steed [from Old French coursier, from cours course] courser3 n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a terrestrial plover-like shore bird, such as Cursorius cursor (cream-coloured courser), of the subfamily Cursoriinae of desert and semidesert regions of the Old World: family Glareolidae, order Charadriiformes [from Latin cursōrius suited for running, from cursus course] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| The riders would leap them over my hand, as I held it on the ground; and one of the emperor's huntsmen, upon a large courser, took my foot, shoe and all; which was indeed a prodigious leap. The courser paw'd the ground with restless feet, And snorting foam'd and champ'd the golden bit. And eftsoons taking on him knighthood, and mounting on that strange courser, he went forth with her on that adventure, where beginneth the first book, viz. |
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