jack-rabbit

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any of several large North American hares found in the West, as Lepus americanus and, especially, L. townsendii.

See: jack(def. 5a)

Quotations

1882

A cache of 35 gallons of whisky was discovered lately in the Pelly River Valley . . . by a policeman while hunting a jack rabbit.

1905

So they all went to the shed and found five live jack-rabbits which this athletic Etonian had run down, thinking they belonged to the sheep.

1963

The big prairie jack-rabbits were congregating for their evening meal.