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Synonyms for hare

Grammar : Noun
Spell : hair
Phonetic Transcription : hɛər

Définition of hare

Origin :
  • Old English hara "hare," from West Germanic *hasan- (cf. Old Frisian hasa, Middle Dutch haese, Dutch haas, Old High German haso, German Hase), possibly with a sense of "gray" (cf. Old English hasu, Old High German hasan "gray"), from PIE *kas- "gray" (cf. Latin canus "white, gray, gray-haired"). Perhaps cognate with Sanskrit sasah, Afghan soe, Welsh ceinach "hare." Rabbits burrow in the ground; hares do not. Hare-lip is from 1560s.
  • þou hast a crokyd tunge heldyng wyth hownd and wyth hare. ["Jacob's Well," c.1440]
  • noun rabbitlike animal
Example sentences :
  • When hare soup is made in this last manner, omit using the blood.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Stuff the body of the hare with this force-meat, and sew it up.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • The dogs started a hare, and pursued it into a dense thicket.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • We were going to seize him, but he broke away and darted like a hare into the shrubs.
  • Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
  • May not this hare of the Indian mythology be the moon-dog of some of our own legends?
  • Extract from : « Storyology » by Benjamin Taylor
  • She had taken up the hare's-foot and was lightly manipulating it.
  • Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
  • If they are served with hare, the liver is chopped and mixed with the forcemeat.
  • Extract from : « The Skilful Cook » by Mary Harrison
  • By-and-by, when the badger got well, he went to see the hare, to have it out with him.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880 » by Various
  • Pour a little gravy round the hare, and serve the remainder in a tureen.
  • Extract from : « The Skilful Cook » by Mary Harrison
  • One day a neighbour's dog started a hare in a meadow where some cows were grazing.
  • Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine

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