Definition of "leveret"
leveret
/ˈlɛvəɹɪt/
noun
plural leverets
A young hare less than one year old.
Quotations
Fair Hand that can on Virgin-paper write, Yet from the stain of Ink preserve it white,Whose travel o’er that Silver Field does show,Like track of Leveretts in morning Snow;
1686, Edmund Waller, “Of a Tree cut in Paper”, in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons by Edmond Waller, London: H. Herringman
As when two skilful hounds the leveret wind;Or chase through woods obscure the trembling hind;Now lost, now seen, they intercept his way,And from the herd still turn the flying prey:So fast, and with such fears, the Trojan flew;So close, so constant, the bold Greeks pursue.
1720, Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, Book 10