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Definition of Lurchers
1. lurcher [n] - See also: lurcher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lurchers
Literary usage of Lurchers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sporting Sketches in South America by Sir William Robert Kennedy (1892)
"Hunting Ostriches, Guanacos, and Cavies with lurchers.— Expeditions into the
Interior of the Country.—Kindness and hospitality of Mr. Luis Jones, ..."
2. Practical Hints on Shooting: Being a Treatise on the Shot Gun and Its by Basil Tozer (1887)
"... Generally—Pointers—Setters —Field Spaniels—Retrievers—Miscellaneous Dogs
employed for Shooting Purposes— Vermin Dogs and lurchers—Examination and Trial ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1893)
"The term "lurcher," I know is a name of reproach, and yet the best so-called
lurchers I have known have been well - bred beautiful creatures. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries: With an Appendix, Containing by Joseph Chitty (1812)
"... and the statute only mentions " greyhounds, setting dogs, and lurchers ;" and
this being a penal law shall not be extended by equity. ..."
5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1887)
"Called lurchers, in an information against one for keeping dogs "called lurchers "
to kill game, must be taken to indicate that they "were rightly so called ..."
6. Reports of Cases Relative to the Duty and Office of a Justice of the Peace by Thomas Caldecott (1800)
"... &c. at a place called Tadley Common he the faid Henry Cottrell, not then having
&c, did keep and ufe two dogs called lurchers, and did kill a hare ..."
7. The New Sporting Magazine (1833)
"Hares are taken in every way ; in the open day by greyhounds or swift lurchers,
knocked on the head when sitting in their forms, snared with wires, ..."
8. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ...Sports (1800)
"Greyhounds, lurchers, and felting dogs, are the only dogs for keeping and ...
lurchers, or felting dogs, to kill a hare, ..."
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