jackhare
jackhare noun: synonym of jackrabbit.
Noun
jackhare (plural jackhares)
- Synonym of jackrabbit.
- Forth with the jackhare stalk the dews / And trick from nature the morning news.1911, Mary Leedy Flanigan, chapter I, in A Summer Idyl, New York, N.Y.: The Cosmopolitan Press, →OCLC, page 15
- He saw only a jackhare (he recognized it from the photographs he had seen of the “real” desert). […] In the moment of closeness with the jackhare, Roger came to believe that not only was his life a gift to himself and to others, but his share of light from the sun, and the shadow the sun created...1979 July, Janet Frame, “Part Four: Avoiding, Bound by the Present Historic”, in Living in the Maniototo, New York, N.Y.: George Braziller, published August 1979 (2nd printing), →ISBN, pages 177...
- Synonyms:
- jackrabbit
Examples of jackhare in a sentence
- Mad jackhares started and checked in the blue glare and high among those clanging crags jokin roehawks crouched in their feathers or cracked a yellow eye at the thunder underfoot.1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter XIV, in Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West, 25th anniversary edition, New York, N.Y....
- At the mercy of the heat, Roger and a jackhare share a shadow. […] Payment is made by the person who will “pay attention” (p 45) to the natural world, its jackhares and its people.1992, Judith Dell Panny, “Living in the Maniototo”, in I Have What I Gave: The Fiction of Janet Frame, 1st U.S. edition, New York, N.Y....
- Anyway, I bounded down those stairs like a jackhare with the beagles after him.1999, A[nthony] R[ichard] Dismorr, chapter 16, in The Misadventures of a Reluctant Counterspy, large print edition, Anstey, Leicestershire...
- You are a jackhare with the whole hunt pack of terriers at your heels: I feel sorry for you.2000 August, Sean McMullen, “11 May 3960: Condelor”, in The Miocene Arrow (Greatwinter; 2), New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, part 1...
Synonyms of jackhare
Forms of jackhare
| plural | jackhares |
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Origin of jackhare
Alteration of jackrabbit with hare.
Questions about jackhare
- What does jackhare mean?
- Jackhare means synonym of jackrabbit.
- How do you use jackhare in a sentence?
- Mad jackhares started and checked in the blue glare and high among those clanging crags jokin roehawks crouched in their feathers or cracked a yellow eye at the thunder underfoot.
- What part of speech is jackhare?
- Jackhare is a noun.
- What is the plural of jackhare?
- The plural of jackhare is jackhares.
Words near jackhare in the dictionary
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