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A person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance
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stayer
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance; "the horse that won the race is a good stayer"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who, or that which, upholds or supports; a prop. 2 One who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains. 3 (context sports informal English) An athlete, horse, etc. with staying power.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In horse racing , a stayer refers to a horse that may be a better performer over a longer distance, such as more than 1-1/2 miles. Sometimes, the term may also refer to a horse that is not able to quicken or speed up.
Usage examples of stayer.
Likewise he shall have my cordial julep with a portion of this confection which we do call Theriaca Andromachi, which hath juice of poppy in it, and is a great stayer of anguish.
Well-shod, with white forefeet, the horse looked a stayer, though not a patch on Stepper.
He thought he heard Berelain make a vexed sound when he booted Stayer to a quick trot, back toward the camp.
It was, in truth, but he did not want to ride Stepper or Stayer into what lay ahead.
Heeling Stayer in the flanks, he trotted away from her without a word.
Someone had already led Stayer away, and Two Rivers men were leaving the ring around the crest, hurrying toward their camp in a scattered stream, shouting to one another about what they would have done had the lancers charged.
Jupiter, Best and Greatest, and the Thunderer, or the Stayer, so called, not because, as the historians tell us, he stayed the flight of the Roman army in answer to the prayer of Romulus, but because all things continue in their stay through his goodness.
A phlegmatic chestnut stayer and a sprinting excitable bay with a black mane.
He turns out to breed better stayers than sprinters, and the world is mad nowadays for very fast two-year-olds.
Ianna had given birth to her in the old old way, had suckled her and kept her close until she was old enough to go into intensive training in the labs and automated factories that turned out the starships and other equipment the Strays needed and the Stayers coveted.
Loguisse nodded, then warned Shareem that they had better deal with Kell soon, since he was making considerable progress among the Stayers, turning them against Aleytys, and his converts were trying to pressure the Tetrad to revoke her acceptance.
The Barb -- you may talk of your flyers and stayers, All bosh -- when he strips you can see his eye range Round his rivals, with much the same look as Tom Sayers Once wore when he faced the big novice, Bill Bainge.
Likewise he shall have my cordial julep with a portion of this confection which we do call Theriaca Andromachi, which hath juice of poppy in it, and is a great stayer of anguish.
But then that was nothing to go by, the thin ones, like racehorses, were often the stayers.
He turns out to breed better stayers than sprinters, and the world is mad nowadays for very fast two-year-olds.