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Hunting

noun

The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport. Synonym: hunt.

The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone. Synonyms: hunt, search.

The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts. Synonym: hunt.

Hunt

verb

(past & past part. hunted; pres. part. hunting)

Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals). Synonyms: hunt down, run, track down. "The dogs are running deer" , "The Duke hunted in these woods"

Pursue or chase relentlessly. Synonyms: hound, trace. "The detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"

Chase away, with as with force.

Yaw back and forth about a flight path.

Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent.

Seek, search for.

Search (an area) for prey.

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"Hunting" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the village with the land-steward. The only time at which the desolated and deserted castle became the scene of life and activity was late in autumn, when the snow first began to fall and the season for wolf-hunting and boar-hunting arrived. Then came Freiherr Roderick with his wife, attended by relatives and friends and a numerous retinue, from Courland. The neighbouring nobility, and even amateur lovers of the ...

— Weird Tales. Vol. I • E. T. A. Hoffmann

... the church-yard is a greensward field called "Hall-close," which is more likely to be the site of the mansion visited by the early kings of England, when hunting in Whittlebury Forest, than the one mentioned by Bridles in his History of the county. About 1798, whilst digging here, a fire-place containing ashes was discovered; also many ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 • Various

... grounded in an eddy under the bank, he sprang ashore with speed little impaired. Only a limp and an ache remained to remind him of the hurt which had so nearly cost him his life and had exiled him to untried hunting-grounds. ...

— The Watchers of the Trails - A Book of Animal Life • Charles G. D. Roberts

... Rats' Creek were the hunting ground of "B" and "D" Companies, and here Lieuts. Ball and Measures more than once nearly captured a Boche post. But the enemy was too alert, and slipped away always down some tunnel or deep dug-out. But the best patrolling ...

— The Fifth Leicestershire - A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, - T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. • J.D. Hills

... such a man. I had to laugh all alone while reading it, which was not a little provoking. We are having very nice times here indeed. Breakfast at eight, dinner at half-past twelve, and tea at half-past six, giving us an afternoon of unprecedented length for such lounging, strawberrying or egg-hunting as happens to be on the carpet. The air is perfectly loaded with the fragrance of clover blossoms and fresh hay. I never saw such clover in my life; roses are nothing in comparison. I only want an old nag and a wagon, so as to drive a load of children about these lovely regions, and ...

— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss

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