Hypertext Webster Gateway: "courser"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Courser \Cours"er\ (k?rs"?r), n. [F. coursier.]
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. (Zo["o]l.) 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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
courser
n : swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia
and Africa
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