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- Dictionarycoursing/ˈkɔːsɪŋ/
noun
- 1. the sport of hunting game animals such as hares with greyhounds using sight rather than scent: "hare coursing"
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Coursing by humans is the pursuit of game or other animals by dogs—chiefly greyhounds and other sighthounds—catching their prey by speed, running by sight, but not by scent. Coursing was a common hunting technique, practised by the nobility, the landed and wealthy, as well as by commoners with sighthounds and lurchers. In its oldest recorded form in the Western world, as described by Arrian—it was... Wikipedia