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Harrier n. (Written also harier) (Zool.) One of a small breed of hounds, used for hunting hares.

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"Harrier" Quotes from Famous Books

... might have been an owl with gull-like dress and hawk-like lines. Whatever it was, it was clipper-built, swift, and in fighting trim. As a matter of fact, it was neither gull nor hawk nor owl, but a harrier, a hen-harrier—that's its name, not its sex, for it was a cock—and the same is a half-way house, so to speak, between hawk and owl. Possibly because they are crepuscular, harriers may be thought more rare than they are. This ...

— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars

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Words linked to "Harrier" : assaulter, assailant, aggressor, harrier eagle, hen harrier, attacker, harry, marsh harrier, circus, hawk, genus Circus, Circus Aeruginosus, northern harrier, marsh hawk, hound, Circus pygargus