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5 horse related terms (carriages, anatomy, breeds, tack)
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courser
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synonyms: charger ???
tags: [equestrian]
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Definition:A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a chargerNoah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---a swift and strong horse, frequently used during the Middle Ages as a warhorse. It was ridden by knights and men-at-arms.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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The riders would leap them over my hand, as I held it on the ground; and one of the emperor’s huntsmen, upon a large courser, took my foot, shoe and all;
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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Perversely do they always think of their lovers and talk of them scornfully, judging all to be clowns which be no courtiers, and all to be pinglers that be not coursers.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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"Where was this coach, in the name of gracious?" asked my sister.
"In Miss Havisham's room." They stared again. "But there weren't any horses to it." I added this saving clause, in the moment of rejecting four richly caparisoned coursers which I had had wild thoughts of harnessing.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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They had been on horseback, naturally; he on a highly strung chestnut courser and she on a beautiful gray palfrey.
Ken Follett. The Pillars of the Earth, p.355 (1990)
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The friar and the nun; or the new motion
Of the knight's courser covering the parson's mare;
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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