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COURSER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does courser mean?
• COURSER (noun)
The noun COURSER has 4 senses:
1. a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey
2. formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle
3. a dog trained for coursing
4. swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles
Familiarity information: COURSER used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("courser" is a kind of...):
hunter; huntsman (someone who hunts game)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
charger; courser
Hypernyms ("courser" is a kind of...):
warhorse (horse used in war)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A dog trained for coursing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("courser" is a kind of...):
hunting dog (a dog used in hunting game)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("courser" is a kind of...):
limicoline bird; shore bird; shorebird (any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "courser"):
cream-colored courser; Cursorius cursor (courser of desert and semidesert regions of the Old World)
crocodile bird; Pluvianus aegyptius (African courser that feeds on insect parasites on crocodiles)
Holonyms ("courser" is a member of...):
family Glareolidae; Glareolidae (Old World shorebirds: pratincoles and coursers)
Context examples
The riders would leap them over my hand, as I held it on the ground; and one of the emperor’s huntsmen, upon a large courser, took my foot, shoe and all; which was indeed a prodigious leap.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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