Courser

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Courser \Cours"er\ (k?rs"?r), n. [F. coursier.]
     1. One who courses or hunts.
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              leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser
              leads his greyhound. --Hanmer.


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     2. A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a
        charger. [Poetic.] --Pope.
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     3. (Zool.) 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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  courser
       n : swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia
           and Africa

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "courser":
     Houyhnhnm, Nimrod, antelope, arrow, beater, big game hunter,
     blue darter, blue streak, brood mare, cannonball, charger, colt,
     critter, dart, dobbin, eagle, electricity, entire, entire horse,
     equine, express train, filly, flash, foal, gazelle, gelding,
     greased lightning, greyhound, hare, horse, hunter, huntress,
     huntsman, jacker, jacklighter, jet plane, light, lightning, mare,
     mercury, mount, nag, prancer, quicksilver, rocket, scared rabbit,
     shikari, shot, sportsman, sportswoman, stalker, stallion, steed,
     streak, streak of lightning, striped snake, stud, studhorse,
     swallow, tarpan, thought, thunderbolt, top horse, torrent, trapper,
     trooper, war-horse, white hunter, wild horse, wind