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Courser   /kˈɔrsər/   Listen
Courser

noun
1.
A huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey.
2.
Formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle.  Synonym: charger.
3.
A dog trained for coursing.
4.
Swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles.



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"Courser" Quotes from Famous Books



... the French Revolution there was still to be seen at Quimper, between the two towers of the cathedral, a figure of King Gradlon mounted on his faithful courser, but in the stormy year of 1793 the name of king was in bad odour and the ignorant populace deprived the statue of its head. However, in 1859 it was restored. Legend attributes the introduction of the vine into Brittany to ...
— Legends & Romances of Brittany • Lewis Spence
... chorus rise Of dogs quick-mouth'd, and shouts that mingle loud, As bursting thunder rolls from cloud to cloud. With ears erect, and chest of vigorous mould, O'er ditch, o'er fence, unconquerably bold, The shining courser lengthens every bound, And his strong foot-locks suck the moisten'd ground, As from the confines of the wood they pour, And joyous villages partake the roar. O'er heath far stretch'd, or down, or valley low. The stiff-limb'd peasant, glorying ...
— The Farmer's Boy - A Rural Poem • Robert Bloomfield
... in ancient times there was a King fond of hunting. He was ever giving reins to the courser of his desire in the pursuit of game, and was always casting the lasso of gladness over the neck of sport. Now this King had a Hawk, who at a single flight could bring down a pebble from the peak of the Caucasus, and in terror of whose claws ...
— The Talking Beasts • Various


Words linked to "Courser" :   limicoline bird, hunter, hunting dog, Pluvianus aegyptius, shorebird, Glareolidae, Cursorius cursor, shore bird, huntsman, warhorse, crocodile bird, family Glareolidae


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