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▪ I. harrier1|ˈhærɪə(r)|
[f. harry v. (which see for the phonology) + -er1. See also harrower2.]
1. One who harries, ravages, or lays waste.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 121 Reiuers, Raikers, Herrieris of the ground. 1600Holland Livy iii. lxviii. 135 Robbers and harriers of our fields. 1868Lowell Pictures fr. Appledore ii. 54 She hides her mountains and her see From the harriers of scenery.
†2. (See quots.) Obs.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Harre, the voice of a harrier or driuer of beasts, Eia. 1598Florio, Vatigaro, a harrier, a drouer, a driuer of cattell.
3. (Also † harrower.) A name for falcons of the genus Circus, and their allies: cf. hen-harrier, marsh-harrier.
1556Withals Dict. (1568) 4 a/2 A haroer, rubetarius. 1565–73Cooper Thesaurus, Rubetarius, a kinde of haukes called an henne harroer. 1611Cotgr., Bondrée, a kind of short winged Eagle..some call her a Harrower. 1691Ray Collect. Words Pref. (E.D.S.) 3 Called a hen-harrier from chasing, preying upon, and destroying of poultry. 1833R. Mudie Brit. Birds (1841) I. 99 The harriers are..very indefatigable in their hunting, and highly destructive of the feathered tribes, and also of rabbits.
4. Comb. (from sense 3): harrier eagle, Circaetus gallicus; harrier-hawk, a hawk of the American genus Micrastur.
1883Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 270 They retain the facial ruff of the Harriers, and hence the name of Harrier-Hawk. Ibid. 284 The Common Harrier Eagle (Circaetus gallicus)..found all over Southern and Central Europe.
▪ II. harrier2|ˈhærɪə(r)|
Also 6 haryer, 7–8 harier.
[app. f. hare n. + -ier; but perh. orig. the same word as harrier1, associated with and referred to hare: cf. 2nd quot. 1576.]
1. A kind of hound, resembling the fox-hound, but smaller, used for hunting the hare.
1408Privy Seal (20 Aug.) 9 Hen. IV. (No. 5874)La garde de nos chiens appellez hayrers. 1413Rot. Pat. 1 Hen. V. pt. 3, memb. 19, 12 June,Custodiam canum nostrorum vocatorum ‘hayreres’. 1446Issues of Excheq. (ed. Devon), [Hounds called] heireres. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 127 b, There bee harryers or buckehoundes. 1576Turberv. Venerie 165 A hounde whiche is a perfect good haryer. 1576Fleming tr. Caius' Dogs in Arb. Garner III. 233 That kind of dog whom Nature hath endued with the virtue of smelling, and draweth into his nostrils the air of the scent of the beast pursued and followed..we call Leverarius, Harriers. 1679Blount Anc. Tenures 39 A Kenel of little Hounds called Harriers. 1723Lond. Gaz. No. 6194/6 A Pack of Harriers. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 217 Harriers in general are much slower in the pursuit than fox-hounds.
b. In pl. A pack of such hounds; including the persons, huntsmen and others, following the chase.
1877Black Green Past. xx, The harriers had met at Willowby Clump. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal x, The harriers met at Trevena.
2. A member of a ‘hare-and-hounds’ team.
1891Daily News 16 Dec. 5/6 The first prize for the best costumed ‘harrier’ was awarded to Mr. E. J. Bagot. 1893Birkenhead News 9 Dec. 7/3 A little diversion was caused through one of the Rock Ferry Harriers falling into a ditch in attempting to leap over it. |