coursing

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of course

noun

  1. The sport of chasing wild animals, especially hares, with dogs by sight rather than by scent.
    Narracoorte was the great coursing centre of the district, and, I believe, of the colony. 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 133

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