coursed

C3O1U1R1S1E1D2

adjective

Laid out in courses or rows.

UncommonScrabble 10

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of course
adjective
  1. Laid out in courses or rows.

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

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

    1862, William John Macquorn Rankine, A Manual of Civil Engineering, page 388

    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.

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

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

    2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 58
  2. Chased by hunters with dogs.

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

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

    1897, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo, The Encyclopaedia of Sport: A-Leo, page 503

    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!

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

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