Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Hunting with dogs trained to chase game by sight instead of scent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sport of pursuing hares or other game with greyhounds, when the game is started in sight of the hounds.
- noun Disputing in the schools. See
courser , 3. - noun In coal-mining, regulation of the ventilation of a mine by systematically conducting the air through it by means of various doors, stoppings, and brattices.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
course . - noun The "
sport " of chasingwild animals , especiallyhares , withdogs bysight rather than byscent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent
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Examples
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Feeling the adrenalin coursing through me, I struggle to retain control.
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Feeling the adrenalin coursing through me, I struggle to retain control.
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The breach sent a churning sea of water from Lake Pontchartrain coursing across Lakeview and into Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park and neighborhoods farther south and east.
09/03/2005 2005
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Hare coursing is banned, though it's working-class.
Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005
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The breach sent a churning sea of water from Lake Pontchartrain coursing across Lakeview and into Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park and neighborhoods farther south and east.
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Hare coursing is banned, though it's working-class.
Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005
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(Hare coursing is letting greyhounds chase hares in a field — a sort of libertarian dog racing without the bother of a track.) "In the minds of ordinary people," Mike said, hunting is "not an issue of class but an issue of behavior."
Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005
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(Hare coursing is letting greyhounds chase hares in a field — a sort of libertarian dog racing without the bother of a track.) "In the minds of ordinary people," Mike said, hunting is "not an issue of class but an issue of behavior."
Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005
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The breach sent a churning sea of water from Lake Pontchartrain coursing across Lakeview and into Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park and neighborhoods farther south and east.
09/04/2005 2005
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Go to google, type in "now i feel your name coursing through my veins lyrics" the spill canvas, lullaby
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