Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A young hare, especially one less than a year old.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hare in its first year; a young hare.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A hare in the first year of its age.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A young
hare .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a young hare especially one in its first year
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Martha's exclamation of surprise and delight at seeing the leveret was the first sound that Stephen heard in the morning; but he preserved a sullen silence as to his absence the previous night, and Martha was too shrewd to press him with questions.
Fern's Hollow Hesba Stretton 1871
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Over the course of the year, he's almost hit on the head by a sparrowhawk, gets a whiff of "bad badger breath" when three cubs cannon into his lap, and watches two stoats massacre a screaming leveret, their normally creamy bibs "the colour of a slaughterman's apron".
A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger by Colin Elford 2010
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The same winds dry out the stacked brushwood, which settles imperceptiblyas a pheasant or a leveret, when surprised, settles itself stealthily into the ground.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The same winds dry out the stacked brushwood, which settles imperceptiblyas a pheasant or a leveret, when surprised, settles itself stealthily into the ground.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The scent of the leveret lies stronger150 than that of the grown animal.
On Hunting 2007
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What leveret could escape amidst so many keen-sighted hunters?
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They heard Marvel squeal like a caught leveret, and forthwith they were clambering over the bar to his rescue.
The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006
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The hare and the rabbit were well enough known, and with the leveret form part of an enumeration of wild animals (animalium ferarum) in a pictorial vocabulary of the fifteenth century.
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The abbe, who concluded, from these symptoms of disgust, that the leveret was not sufficiently stale, began to exhibit marks of discontent, and desired that it might be brought to the other end of the table for his examination.
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This was a roasted leveret, very strong of the fumet, which happened to be placed directly under his nose.
MaryW commented on the word leveret
Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (New York: Little Brown & Co., 2004), p. 164.May 30, 2016