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Courser

//ˈkɜːsə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A dog used for coursing.
  2. 2
    swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles wordnet
  3. 3
    A hunter who practises coursing.
  4. 4
    a dog trained for coursing wordnet
  5. 5
    A swift horse; a racehorse or a charger.

    "Sir Launfal is instantly set at liberty, and vaulting on the courser his mistress had bestowed on him, and which was held at hand by his squire, he follows her out of the town."

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  1. 6
    formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle wordnet
  2. 7
    Any of several species of terrestrial bird in the genera Cursorius and Rhinoptilus.
  3. 8
    a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey wordnet
  4. 9
    A stone used in building a course.

Etymology

From Middle English courser, Anglo-Norman cursier, corser, from Medieval Latin cursārius. By surface analysis, course + -er. Doublet of corsair and hussar.

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