Antonyms for harriers

Grammar : Noun

Spell : har-ee-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhær i ər

receiver

Definition of harriers

Origin : 1540s, from Middle English hayrer "small hunting dog" (c.1400), possibly from Middle French errier "wanderer" [Barnhart], or associated with hare, which they would have hunted. The hawk genus (1550s) is from harry (v.), which also is a candidate for the source of the dog name.

As in bully : noun domineering person
As in runner : noun one who runs
As in intimidator : noun bully

Example sentences :

Say I have some cock-shooting,—there are harriers in the neighborhood.
Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever

By the way, there's something to show you—an old maid who hunts her own harriers.'
Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever

The sentence about the Football Club and the Harriers was a sudden inspiration.
Extract from : « Follow My leader » by Talbot Baines Reed

Confound it, I wish the Harriers would choose some other run!
Extract from : « Follow My leader » by Talbot Baines Reed

Otherwise he plays golf and follows the harriers for his figure's sake.
Extract from : « Actions and Reactions » by Rudyard Kipling

But the best of harriers is that you hardly ever are out of the hunt.
Extract from : « Dr. Jolliffe's Boys » by Lewis Hough

Now that the harriers are gone, he said, the future seems rather a blank.
Extract from : « Lord Randolph Churchill » by Winston Spencer Churchill

The name is a reminder of the old cry of the harriers—Co, ho!
Extract from : « Nooks and Corners of Old London » by Charles Hemstreet

The ordinary man will doubtless be satisfied to call them all harriers.
Extract from : « Indian Birds » by Douglas Dewar

Hoo sto, ho sto, mon amy, ho sto: To harriers drawing for a stag.
Extract from : « The Master of Game » by Second Duke of York, Edward

Synonyms for harriers

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