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coursed

1. Laid out in courses or rows.
   • 1862, William John Macquorn Rankine, A Manual of Civil Engineering, page 388:

     For example, when a coursed rubble or block-in-course wing-wall or spandril of a bridge has to support an ashlar parapet, a string course must first be placed on the wall, to give a steady base for the parapet, and to distribute its weight over the smaller stones below.

   • 1915 July, George M. Petersen, “Building a Home”, in Popular Mechanics Magazine, volume 24, number 1, page 127:

     A coursed-ashlar wall is shown in Fig. 1, and a broken-ashlar wall in Fig . 2.

   • 2008, Ohio Historic Places Dictionary - Volume 2, page 420:

     The Thomas Bowman Barn No. 2 is a large two-and-a-half-story structure of wood frame construction built on a coursed stone foundation.

   • 2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 58:

     It [St Pinnock Viaduct] has seven piers of roughly-dressed, coursed slatestone from Westwood quarry.

1. Chased by hunters with dogs.
   • 1897, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo, The Encyclopaedia of Sport: A-Leo, page 503:

     Daniel, in his Rural Sports (vol. i. p. 446, and Suppl. p. 694(, mentions several instances of white hares; and Scott, in his British Field Sports (p. 361), gives an account of a coursed hare which was said to have become white from fright!

   • 2013, A. C. Crossley, The Eton College Hunt - A Short History Of Beagling At Eton:

     By this means it will be found little, if at all, inferior to a coursed or hunted hare.

   • 2023 July, “Fox Hunting, &c.”, in The Oriental Sporting Magazine, volume 1, page 245:

     One point, however, is clear:—if the brush of a coursed fox is to be awareded according to the rules with a hunted fox, "Brush" is the very last man in the field that can claim it; for it appears that when Reynard was killed, "Brush" was coursing a fresh fox in an opposite direction!

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• cedrous, scoured, sourced