hare-warrenn.
A warren or breeding-place for hares.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > gamekeeping > [noun] > place where rabbits/hares kept
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warrena1425
hare-warren1647
rabbit warren1766
rabbitry1838
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare) > lair or breeding place
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hare-warren1647
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1647 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: 4th Pt. (1701) II. 878 Another Rendezvous of the Army was upon the Hare-warren near Kingston.
1668 C. Sedley Mulberry-garden iv. i Like a pack of hounds in a hare warren.
a1777 S. Foote Cozeners (1778) ii. 31 He puts me in mind of a pack of hounds in a hare-warren; by eternally shifting the game, the pursuit never ends.
1829 Sporting Mag. 23 392 A county..which..has degenerated..into a mere hare-warren and pheasant-mew.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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