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courser - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A broker; an agent; a dealer; especially, a dealer in horses.
- noun A groom.
- noun A swift horse; a runner; a war-horse: used chiefly in poetry.
- noun One who hunts; one who pursues the sport of coursing.
- noun A discourser; a disputant.
- noun In ornithology: A bird of the genus Cursorius: as, the cream-colored courser, Cursorius isabellinus.
- noun plural The birds of the old group Cursores; the struthious birds, as the ostrich, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who courses or hunts.
- noun Poetic. A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger.
- noun (Zoöl.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
dog used forcoursing . - noun A person who practises coursing.
- noun A
hunter . - noun A
stone used inbuilding acourse . - noun A
racehorse or acharger . - noun Any of several
species ofbird in the genusCursorius of the familyGlareolidae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles
- noun a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey
- noun a dog trained for coursing
- noun formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cursier, corser (French: coursier), from curs "course".
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Examples
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Of courser, that is exactly what every government should be doing.
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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 grrm 2010
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Now she was tolerating him too much, crabby on account of his art, using courser language, waxing indifferent.
Bear Circuit Jesse Crockett 2011
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Identifying megadiverse countries instead of regions is spatially courser and concentrates biodiversity over a larger percentage of the globe: collectively the 17 nations cover about 40 percent of the world's non-glacial land area.
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Perhaps this simplicity eluded me when attempting to prepare a complex three-courser that would speak to Norman Dubie's poetic flights of fancy.
Poetry And Food 2010
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But if you're looking to start the party fashionably early (We always are), Ammo gets the ball rolling on Sunday, July 11th with a notable three-courser.
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Since I didn't want to bury myself in the kitchen all night, I felt a three-courser would suffice.
Poetry And Food 2010
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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 grrm 2010
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Perhaps this simplicity eluded me when attempting to prepare a complex three-courser that would speak to Norman Dubie's poetic flights of fancy.
Poetry And Food 2010
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Since I didn't want to bury myself in the kitchen all night, I felt a three-courser would suffice.
Poetry And Food 2010
Related Words
synonyms (70)
Words with the same meaning
- 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
hypernyms (4)
Words that are more generic or abstract
same context (9)
Words that are found in similar contexts
forms (18)
Forms
- Bronze-winged Courser
- Burchell's Courser
- Cream-coloured Courser
- Cursorius coromandelicus
- Cursorius cursor
- Cursorius rufus
- Cursorius somalensis
- Cursorius temminckii
- Double-banded Courser
- Indian Courser
- Jerdon's Courser
- Rhinoptilus africanus
- Rhinoptilus bitorquatus
- Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
- Rhinoptilus cinctus
- Somali Courser
- Temminck's Courser
- Three-banded Courser
chained_bear commented on the word courser
In the Middle Ages, a swift and strong horse ridden by knights and men-at-arms.
Now, it's mostly used to describe Santa's reindeer, which he whistled and shouted and called by name.
November 8, 2007