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Harrier

noun

A persistent attacker. Synonym: harasser.

A hound that resembles a foxhound but is smaller; used to hunt rabbits.

Hawks that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on small terrestrial animals.

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"Harrier" Quotes from Famous Books

... unworthily represented by carrion-hawks (Polyborinae); the lordly carancho, almost eagle-like in size, black and crested, with a very large, pale blue, hooked beak—his battle axe: and his humble follower and jackal, the brown and harrier-like chimango. These nest on the ground, are versatile in their habits, carrion-eaters, also killers on their own account, and, like wild dogs, sometimes hunt in bands, which gives them an advantage. They are the unfailing attendants of all flesh-hunters, human or feline; and also furiously ...

— The Naturalist in La Plata • W. H. Hudson

... thought by their strangling cries that father crow, in sheer desperation, had brought them oysters with the shells on. Their awful gaggings died away at dusk. Besides the crows and fish-hawks, a harrier would now and then come skimming close along the grass. Higher up, the turkey-buzzards circled all day long; and once, setting my blood leaping and the fish-hawks screaming, there sailed over, far away in the blue, a bald-headed eagle, his snowy neck and tail flashing in the sunlight ...

— Roof and Meadow • Dallas Lore Sharp

Words linked to "Harrier" : Circus cyaneus, marsh hawk, circus, assaulter, hound, Circus pygargus, aggressor, attacker, hawk, genus Circus, hound dog, assailant, Circus Aeruginosus, harry