Hares

Word HARES
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /heɹz/

Definitions and meanings of "Hares"

What do we mean by hares?

Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears.

The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.

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The word "hares" in example sentences

But now my crop promised very well, when on a sudden I found I was in danger of losing it all again by enemies of several sorts, which it was scarce possible to keep from it; as, first the goats and wild creatures which I called hares, who, tasting the sweetness of the blade, lay in it night and day, as soon as it came up, and eat it so close, that it could get no time to shoot up into stalk. ❋ Unknown (1895)

The calling hares are distributed over Asia and North America. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

So hunting with the hounds and running with the hares is the order of the day and America vacillates with Condi on point. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We didn't flush any jackrabbits Steve calls them hares, which is more correct but had a good walk and a photo op. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"No. Passengers who travel without tickets are called hares with us." ❋ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1882)

The hunt of the hares is a recurring motif in the margins of medieval manuscripts, one I discussed here some time ago. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, at this epoch the weather was pretty favourable; the partridges and the hares were the only animals that had a right to complain, for the sportsmen did not give them a moment's peace; they set several fox-traps, but the suspicious animals did not let themselves be caught so easily; they would often come and eat the snare by scratching out the snow from under the trap; the doctor wished them at the devil, as he could not get them himself. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

Wild populations of other herbivorous mammal species in the tundra, such as hares, squirrels, muskox, and reindeer/caribou, never reach population densities or biomass levels that can compare with peak lemming populations [103]. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Why didn't we cook all those "hares" up, Mom and Dad? ❋ Phil Razem (2009)

Matt- given my quarry I occasionally split "hares". ❋ Unknown (2007)

For at harvest a number of wild animals, such as hares, rabbits, and partridges, are commonly driven by the progress of the reaping into the last patch of standing corn, and make their escape from it as it is being cut down. ❋ Unknown (1922)

The "hares," who take a discreet course over previously constructed hurdles, get a start of three minutes. ❋ Emily Ferguson (1910)

Two "hares" carry the paper in bags slung across their shoulders and receive a quarter of an hour's grace in which to plant their burden, where they know the coloured slips will take some finding. ❋ Alice M. Hayes (1873)

Animals such as hares, whose eyes are set more on the side of the head than ours, must be able to perceive at one and the same instant more of a panorama than we can. ❋ Francis Galton (1866)

Nets may sometimes have been employed for the capture of small game, such as hares and rabbits, since we occasionally see beaters or other attendants carrying upon poles, which they hold over their shoulders, nets of dimensions far too small for them to have been used in the deer-hunts, with balls of string and pegs wherewith to extend them. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

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