Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sucking rabbit; a young rabbit.
  • noun A gull; a dupe; a cony. See cony, 7.

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Examples

  • Depose me? if thou dost it half so gravely, so majestically, both in word and matter, hang me up by the heels for a rabbit-sucker or a poulter’s hare.

    Act II. Scene IV. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914

  • Depose me? if thou dost it half so gravely, so majestically, both in word and matter, hang me up by the heels for a rabbit-sucker, or a poulterer's hare.

    Characters of Shakespeare's Plays William Hazlitt 1804

  • Depose me? if thou dost it half so gravely, so majestically, both in word and matter, hang me up by the heels for a rabbit-sucker or a poulter's hare.

    The First Part of King Henry IV 1596

  • Depose me? if thou dost it half so gravely, so majestically, both in word and matter, hang me up by the heels for a rabbit-sucker or a poulter’s hare.

    The first part of King Henry the Fourth 2004

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