Courser
['kɔːsə]
Definition
(noun.) swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles.
(noun.) a dog trained for coursing.
(noun.) a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey.
Typed by Harley--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who courses or hunts.
(n.) A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger.
(n.) A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor), remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family.
Typist: Trevor
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Racer, race-horse.
Checker: Marie
Examples
- The courser paw'd the ground with restless feet, And snorting foam'd and champ'd the golden bit. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I added this saving clause, in the moment of rejecting four richly caparisoned coursers which I had had wild thoughts of harnessing. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Still and for ever did the earth roll on, enthroned in her atmospheric car, speeded by the force of the invisible coursers of never-erring necessity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I saw the brow of Idris clouded; I again felt, that we were enchained to the car of fate, over whose coursers we had no control. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Edited by Claudette