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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a species of hare, Lepus americanus, especially common in the North, so called because its fur is brown in summer and white in winter.
See: varying hare
Quotations
1696
Today our hunters kill'd 30 partridges and 3 Rabbits.
1743
Rabbits in some parts are Very plenty.
1871
There is a species of hare . . . mis-called a rabbit, which is numerous, but hardly eatable, as they feed altogether on the shoots of the fir trees. In the winter they turn white.
1954
Rabbits had been everywhere throughout the district in teeming abundance and that meant abundant food for fur bearers, most of whom practically live off rabbits.