Word of the day: courser

The word of the day is courser:

1. a swift horse.

large, powerful horse," c.1300, from O.Fr. corsier, from V.L. *cursarius, from L. cursus (see course).

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/courser)

"'Where was the coach, in the name of gracious?' asked my sister.

"'In Miss Havisham's room.'  They stared again.  'But there weren't any horses to it.'  I added this saving clause, in the moment of rejecting four richly caparisoned coursers which I had had wild thoughts of harnessing."

 - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations