LEVERET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leveret mean? 

• LEVERET (noun)
  The noun LEVERET has 1 sense:

1. a young hare especially one in its first year

  Familiarity information: LEVERET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEVERET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young hare especially one in its first year

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("leveret" is a kind of...):

hare (swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes)

 Context examples 

Aye, this is indeed a pied merlin, and with a leveret under its claws, as I am a living woman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At this moment I have two pages coursing after it from side to side, like hounds behind a leveret.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He whipped it back with an oath, while she tore herself free and slipped behind Alleyne, cowering up against him like the trembling leveret who sees the falcon poising for the swoop above him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All along by the sedgy banks of the rivers long lines of pages led their masters' chargers down to water, while the knights themselves lounged in gayly-dressed groups about the doors of their pavilions, or rode out, with their falcons upon their wrists and their greyhounds behind them, in quest of quail or of leveret.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)