leveret

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English

Etymology

From Middle English leveret(te), from Old French leveret, diminutive of lievre (“hare”), from Latin leporem, of obscure origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛvəɹɪt/, /ˈlɛvɹɪt/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

leveret (plural leverets)

  1. A young hare less than one year old.
    Synonym: hareling
    • 1623, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi‎, act V, scene 5:
      […] Shall I die like a leveret,
      Without any resistance?—Help, help, help!
      I am slain!
    • 1686, Edmund Waller, “Of a Tree cut in Paper”, in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons by Edmond Waller‎, London: H. Herringman:
      Fair Hand that can on Virgin-paper write,
      Yet from the stain of Ink preserve it white,
      Whose travel o’er that Silver Field does show,
      Like track of Leveretts in morning Snow;
    • 1720, Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer‎, Book 10:
      As when two skilful hounds the leveret wind;
      Or chase through woods obscure the trembling hind;
      Now lost, now seen, they intercept his way,
      And from the herd still turn the flying prey:
      So fast, and with such fears, the Trojan flew;
      So close, so constant, the bold Greeks pursue.
    • 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 16”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
      They heard Marvel squeal like a caught leveret, and forthwith they were clambering over the bar to his rescue.

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French leveret. First attested a1425.

Noun

leveret (plural leverets)

  1. a young hare

Descendants

  • English: leveret

References

Old French

Etymology

From lievre (“hare”) +‎ -et (diminutive ending). Attested ca. mid–13th c.

Pronunciation

  • (late) IPA(key): /lɛvᵊˈrɛt/

Noun

leveret oblique singular, m (oblique plural leverez or leveretz, nominative singular leverez or leveretz, nominative plural leveret)

  1. a young hare
  2. the skin of a hare

Descendants

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