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courser

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courser1
1. a person who courses hounds or dogs, esp greyhounds
2. a hound or dog trained for coursing

courser2
Literary a swift horse; steed

courser
a terrestrial plover-like shore bird, such as Cursorius cursor (cream-coloured courser), of the subfamily Cursoriinae of desert and semidesert regions of the Old World: family Glareolidae, order Charadriiformes


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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.
The courser paw'd the ground with restless feet, And snorting foam'd and champ'd the golden bit.
And eftsoons taking on him knighthood, and mounting on that strange courser, he went forth with her on that adventure, where beginneth the first book, viz.
 
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