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US
/ˈkɔɹsɝ/
]
[ UK /kˈɔːsɐ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɔːsɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a dog trained for coursing
- formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle
- a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey
- swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles
How To Use courser In A Sentence
- But if you're looking to start the party fashionably early (We always are), Ammo gets the ball rolling on Sunday, July 11th with a notable three-courser. Bastille Day In Los Angeles
- How the members of any pleasant evening-company might astonish or amuse each other by narrating together the contradictory views the same voluble discourser has unfolded to them successively during the passage of one hour! so easily we bend and conform, and deny God and ourselves, to gratify the guest we converse with. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
- Jerdon's courser Rhinoptilus bitorquatus Phasianidae Ceylon junglefowl Gallus lafayetii Capitonidae Yellow-fronted barbet Megalaima flavifrons An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion. Deccan thorn scrub forests
- Like grouse shooters, fox hunters, lampers, hare coursers, badger baiters and of course meat eaters, anglers do what they do simply because they enjoy doing it.
- She lived her full complement of days, ending them at her own farm in the southwest horse country, where she bred some of the finest coursers and palfreys outside of the large established studs.
- And next, the courser-man, in secrecy, unscrewed one of the bullion buttons on his buff jerkin, and taking from it a scrap of paper, handed this also to the watchful feodary. Historic girls; stories of girls who have influenced the history of their times,
- For information on how to enrol and pay for these courses and to find out what other coursers are available in this excellent facility right in the heart of the village call us on the same number.
- Illegal hare coursing is a threat to populations because farmers cull them rather than have hare coursers on their land.
- In her ground-breaking work on the medieval warhorse, Ann Hyland notes the importance of ‘destriers [warhorses], coursers, rounceys, palfrey and packhorses’.
- He was already dreaded for his prowess in argument, his dictatorial manners and vivid flashes of wit and humour, the more effective from the habitual gloom and apparent heaviness of the discourser. Samuel Johnson
