courser

UK/ˈkɜːsə/

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — course sits at #89Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: coursers

A courser is a swift horse used in war or hunting. Ride a courser.

It was a fast horse for the charge where a destrier was the heavy warhorse. The word is a doublet of corsair and of hussar, which all come from running or raiding.

Definitions of courser

1nouncourserA swift horse used in war or hunting.C2
“The courser cost more than the armour it carried.”

courser is a horse.

Where it comes from

Medieval Latin cursarius comes from currere, to run; it is a doublet of corsair and hussar.

Medieval Latin
cursārius
Anglo-Norman
cursier
Middle English
courser
English, today
courser

From Middle English courser, Anglo-Norman cursier, corser, from Medieval Latin cursārius. by surface analysis, course + -er. a doublet of corsair and hussar.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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courser in the wild

The coursers are a subfamily Cursoriinae of birds which, together with the pratincoles, make up the family Glareolidae in the order Charadriiformes.
Courser
Like the pratincoles, the coursers are found in warmer parts of the Old World.
Courser
The cream-coloured courser (Cursorius cursor) is a species of wader in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae.
Cream-coloured courser
Jerdon's courser (Rhinoptilus bitorquatus) is a nocturnal bird belonging to the pratincole and courser family Glareolidae endemic to India.
Jerdon's courser
Burchell's courser (Cursorius rufus) is a wader in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae.
Burchell's courser

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Related words

course

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