courser : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: courser	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for courser
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
courser n a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle Synonym(s): charger, courser a dog trained for coursing swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles
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[94]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.