courser – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
courser
n.
fast horse; person who hunts with hounds; hunting dog
Courser
The
coursers are a group of
birds which together with the
pratincoles make up the family Glareolidae. They have long legs, short wings and long pointed bills which curve downwards. Their most unusual feature for birds classed as
waders is that they inhabit deserts and similar arid regions.
courser
Noun
1. swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa
(hypernym) shorebird, shore bird, limicoline bird
(hyponym) cream-colored courser, Cursorius cursor
(member-holonym) Glareolidae, family Glareolidae
Courser
(n.)
One who courses or hunts.
(n.)
A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger.
(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Courser
The best examples of a
knight's warhorse, the crème de la crème, often valued from £20 to £100, prices something like that of a modern Mercedes or Cadillac. The more common warhorses were like modern hunters, known then as
destriers .
