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coursed

coursed is the simple past and past participle of course.

Adjective

coursed

  1. Laid out in courses or rows.
    • 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
    • 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
  2. Chased by hunters with dogs.
    • 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
    • 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

Meaning of course

Verb

course (third-person singular simple present courses, present participle coursing, simple past and past participle coursed)

  1. To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
    • The oil coursed through the engine.
  2. (transitive) To run through or over.
  3. (transitive) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
    • We coursed him at the heels.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  4. (transitive) To cause to chase after or pursue game.
    • to course greyhounds after deer

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Words formed from coursed

Questions about coursed

What does coursed mean?
Coursed means laid out in courses or rows.
What is coursed the simple past and past participle of?
Coursed is the simple past and past participle of course.
What part of speech is coursed?
Coursed is an adjective.

Words near coursed in the dictionary

  1. course-correcting
  2. course-corrects
  3. coursebook
  4. coursebooks
  5. coursecest
  6. coursed
  7. courseless
  8. courselike
  9. courseload
  10. courseloads
  11. coursemate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coursed (page history and authors); course (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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