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lev·er·et

(lĕv′ər-ĭt)

A young hare, especially one less than a year old.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, diminutive of levere, hare, from Latin lepus, lepor-.]

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leveret

(ˈlɛvərɪt; -vrɪt)

(Animals) a young hare, esp one less than one year old

[C15: from Norman French levrete, diminutive of levre, from Latin lepus hare]

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lev•er•et

(ˈlɛv ər ɪt)

n.

a young hare.

[1400–50; late Middle English < Anglo-French, diminutive of levre, Old French lievre < Latin leporem, acc. of lepus hare; see -et]

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Noun

leveret - a young hare especially one in its first year

hare - swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes

Translations

lebrato

leprotto

hazenjonglamprei

leveret

[ˈlevərɪt] N → lebrato m

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leveret

n → junger Hase, Häschen nt

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These interrogatives were addressed to the footman who had come in to say that the keeper had found one of Dagley's boys with a leveret in his hand just killed.

Brooke, who presently came and said that he would step into the carriage and go with Dorothea as far as Dagley's, to speak about the small delinquent who had been caught with the leveret. Dorothea renewed the subject of the estate as they drove along, but Mr.

"Your little lad Jacob has been caught killing a leveret, Dagley: I have told Johnson to lock him up in the empty stable an hour or two, just to frighten him, you know.

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'Do you think it likely?' I ventured to inquire: for Matilda had started off in pursuit of her dog, that was chasing a leveret.

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She hates the leveret that runs across the path; she hates everything that is not what she longs for.

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Roast partridges, flanked with quails and flanking a larded leveret; boiled fowls; hams, fried and sprinkled with white wine, cardons of Guipuzcoa and la bisque ecrevisses : these, together with soups and hors d'oeuvres , constituted the governor's bill of fare.

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Aye, this is indeed a pied merlin, and with a leveret under its claws, as I am a living woman.

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This week, I have seen leverets, possibly the second family of the year.

Escape artist's hare one minute, gone the next

For example: baby hares, called leverets, are precocial.

Off the Cuff: Miners don't abandon their mines

"We have adders, lizards, and leverets. They would have suffered in the fire.

Green shoots of hope for gamekeeper

The charity is campaigning to prevent hares being shot during the breeding season, which frequently leads to parentless leverets starving in the fields.

EXPERT OPINION

YOUNG hares, known as leverets, can now be spotted out and about in the fields of Cleveland.