Swiftfoot

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A bird, the courser.

    "1838-1842, William Jardine, The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland The Courser or Swiftfoot […] are Little Bustard Plovers, intermediate in many respects, and showing a beautiful gradation of form."

Adjective
  1. 1
    nimble; fleet obsolete

    "The hauke, the hound, the hinde, the swift-foot hare"

Example

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"1838-1842, William Jardine, The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland The Courser or Swiftfoot […] are Little Bustard Plovers, intermediate in many respects, and showing a beautiful gradation of form."

Etymology

From swift + foot.

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