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noun

Hunter n.

One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.

A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog.

A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.

One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter. "No keener hunter after glory breathes."

(Zool.) A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting.

A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.

Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon.

Hunter's screw (Mech.), a differential screw, so named from the inventor. See under Differential.

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Etymology of 'Hunter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hunter" Quotes from Famous Books

... with the women, and reconciled herself to this new life in her moving canvas-covered home. In the meantime Ferrier having recovered from his privations, distinguished himself as a useful guide and an indefatigable hunter. So rapidly did he gain the esteem of his new companions, that when they reached the end of their wanderings, it was unanimously agreed that he should be provided with as large and as fertile a tract of land as any of the settlers, with the exception ...

— A Study In Scarlet • Arthur Conan Doyle

... The cut looked as if done by a razor. There was no instrument lying about the room. He had known the deceased about a month. He seemed a very earnest, simple-minded young fellow, who spoke a great deal about the brotherhood of man. (The hardened old man-hunter's voice was not free from a tremor as he spoke jerkily of the dead man's enthusiasms.) He should have thought the deceased the last man in the world to ...

— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill

... English stranger with a hospitality which the farmers of Ohio never failed to show to their guests. He had several sons, but he spoke of one who seemed to have a warm place in his heart, and who had gone away some years before, and was leading a wild hunter's ...

— In the Rocky Mountains - A Tale of Adventure • W. H. G. Kingston

... had stopped at the Dominican convent the natives supposed that the monks were his friends. And when the slave hunter came ashore again a few days afterward the infuriated Indians killed him and his men, and a week later they attacked the convent and killed the ...

— Las Casas - 'The Apostle of the Indies' • Alice J. Knight

... The thunder that breaks On the tops of the rocks with the rain, And the wind which drives up with the salt of the lakes, Have made him a hunter again— ...

— The Poems of Henry Kendall • Henry Kendall

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