courser

[ US /ˈkɔɹsɝ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɔːsɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a dog trained for coursing
  2. formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle
  3. a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey
  4. swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles
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How To Use courser In A Sentence

  • A well-caparisoned knight's courser had inexplicably taken their place, and stood munching the trampled grass. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • Protestants: Horse-coursers jades will bound, curvet and shew more tricks, then a horse well mettled for the rode or cart. A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich
  • ` ` From the Lord Protector, '' he said; and Master Avery Mitchell, the feodary, * who had been closely watching for this same courser-man for several anxious hours, took from his hands a scroll, on which was inscribed: Historic girls; stories of girls who have influenced the history of their times,
  • According to him the great discourser only "seemed to wander," and he seemed to wander the most English Men of Letters: Coleridge
  • That winter-shaggy warhorse was no courser, but only a Sothoii - or someone with a prince's purse - could own its equal.
  • 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.
  • Jaime Lannister trotted onto the field on a chestnut courser with a tawny mane, clad in golden armor that flashed and glittered in the sun. Trial of Seven
  • The numbers of hares killed by coursers each year is entirely speculative as far as I can see.
  • Once in a winter, a hunter went to hunt with his courser.
  • The _Table Talk_, edited by Mr. Nelson Coleridge, shows how pregnant, how pithy, how full of subtle observation, and often also of playful humour, could be the talk of the great discourser in its lighter and more colloquial forms. English Men of Letters: Coleridge
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