leveret

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But, he added, capturing rare images such as a hare feeding her leveret on someone's back lawn was "just amazing".

From BBC • May 17, 2025

“C’m’ere, you dreadful little rogue! I’ve got the very thing for you. This is a leveret dagger. All young hares carry one. Here, let’s try it on you for size, young buccaneer, what, what!”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Here, one starry April night, in a snug “form” prepared by the mother hare, a leveret was born.

From Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain by Rees, Alfred Wellesley

Ordinary people snuggle up to God as a lost leveret in a freezing wilderness might snuggle up to a Siberian tiger….

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

When the unscrupulous keeper finds a snare he sometimes puts a leveret into it, and secretes himself.

From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous