Thesaurus: courser

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1. n. One who courses or hunts.
2. n. A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger.
3. 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.
4. n. a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey
5. n. formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle
6. n. a dog trained for coursing
7. n. swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles
8. 1. One who courses or hunts. leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads his greyhound. Hanmer. 2. A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger. [Poetic.] Pope. 3. (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.
9. A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor), remarkablefor its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied torunning birds of the Ostrich family.
10. n. a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey n. a dog trained for coursing n. swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles