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Harrier

noun

A persistent attacker. Synonym: harasser.

A hound that resembles a foxhound but is smaller; used to hunt rabbits.

Hawks that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on small terrestrial animals.

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"Harrier" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Rather!" smiled Harrier. "I don't mind laying a fiver that Mr. Machin's dressing-gown came from Drook's in Old Bond Street." But instead of saying "Old" he ...

— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett

... Here, too, in this tree, I first felt the desire for wings, to dream of the delight it would be to circle upwards to a great height and float on the air without effort, like the gull and buzzard and harrier and other great soaring land and water birds. But from the time this notion and desire began to affect me I envied most the great crested screamer, an inhabitant then of all the marshes in our vicinity. For here was a bird as big or bigger than a goose, as heavy almost as I was ...

— Far Away and Long Ago • W. H. Hudson

Words linked to "Harrier" : circus, harry, Circus cyaneus, harasser, aggressor, assaulter, Circus pygargus, hound, genus Circus, Circus Aeruginosus, assailant, hound dog, marsh hawk, attacker, hawk