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Definition of Harriers

1. harrier [n] - See also: harrier

Lexicographical Neighbors of Harriers

Literary usage of Harriers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hunting by Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset Beaufort, Mowbray Morris, Edward William Lewis Davis, Digby Collins, Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1886)
"It may be taken for granted that all harriers have a very strong dash of foxhound blood in them, derived either from immediate or more remote ancestry, ..."

2. Hunting by Henry Charles Fitz Roy Somerset Beaufort, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"harriers AND THE HARE. What is the harrier ? Well, the Encyclopedia tells us that it is 'the English name for the hound used in hunting the hare,' and it ..."

3. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1901)
"FEW of the old packs of harriers in the United Kingdom have retained to the present day their original character to remind us that many of the great family ..."

4. Marion Fay: A Novel by Anthony Trollope (1882)
"THE BRAESIDE harriers. THE Braeside harriers can hardly be called a "crack" pack of hounds. Lord Hautboy had been right in saying that they were always ..."

5. The Twentieth Century Dog by Herbert Compton (1904)
"... and twenty-two packs of harriers are listed in the official publication ... such ramifications as " Crossbred harriers," " harriers and Cross-bred," ..."

6. Hazell's Annual edited by Watson and Viney (1910)
"Won by the Birchfield harriers, Hallamshire harriers being second, Sutton harriers third. First man home—J. Murphy, Hallamshire harriers, 62 min. ..."

7. Hazell's Annual edited by Watson and Viney (1911)
"Won by the Hallamshire harriers for the fourth time in succession,. ... Thrapston harriers, finishing first in 64 min. 27 sec. .*ldl"d--Won by the Derby and ..."

8. Hazell's Annual edited by Watson and Viney (1915)
"Won by Herne Hill harriers with 8S points, AH Nichols, ... 29^ sec.; Highgate harriers were second with 149 points, and Surrey AC British records. llif.l ..."

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