Obs. Name of a country game, in which a girl called out one of the other sex to chase her.

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1613.  W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. iii. 19. Staid with the maides to runne at barlibreake: Or that he cours’d a parke with females fraught, which would not runne except they might be caught.

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1640.  G. H., Witts Recreations (N.).

        At Course-a-Park, without all doubt,
He should have first been taken out
    By all the maids i’th Town.

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1675.  Teonge, Diary (1825), 112. Like boys and gyrles at course-a-packe, or barly breakes.

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