coursing

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sɪŋ

coursing

1. present participle and gerund of course

coursing (countable and uncountable, plural coursings)

1. The sport of chasing wild animals, especially hares, with dogs by sight rather than by scent.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 133:

     Narracoorte was the great coursing centre of the district, and, I believe, of the colony.

• scouring, sourcing