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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

... the Sun-god—is no slave Of thine: thy Hunter he, who for thy soul Fledges his shaft: to the august control Of thy skilled hand his quivered store he gave: But if thy lips' loud cry leap to his smart, The inspired record shall ...

— Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1883 • T. Hall Caine

... shooting license a hunter has dropped," he completed his half-finished sentence. "I'll just stick it in my pocket until we get to a place where I can look at it better. I might lose something from the envelope in ...

— The Motor Girls On Cedar Lake - The Hermit of Fern Island • Margaret Penrose

... near side dipped entirely and showed a broad path of water into the lagoon; here and there both sides were equally abased, and we could look right through the discontinuous ring to the sea horizon on the south. Conceive, on a vast scale, the submerged hoop of the duck-hunter, trimmed with green rushes to conceal his head—water within, water without—you have the image of the perfect atoll. Conceive one that has been partly plucked of its rush fringe; you have the atoll of Kauehi. And for either shore of it at closer quarters, ...

— In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson

... landing on the lake refused to prosper. The idea was good enough, but I was ahead of my time: travel on the lake had not yet begun. With my field thus narrowed down, I fell back on my gun and some old rat-traps I found in the woodshed. I became a hunter and trapper. Right below me was the glen through which the creek ran on its way to the sawmills and furniture-shops of Jamestown. It was full of musk-rats that burrowed in its banks between the roots of dead hemlocks and pines. There I set my traps and baited them ...

— The Making of an American • Jacob A. Riis

... might well believe the fate of a score of persons depended upon its not losing a half minute. Alvin took good care to give her plenty of room and saluted with several whistle toots. There was no reply. The captain merely glanced at the two craft and sped onward like an arrow from the bow of the hunter. ...

— The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters • Edward S. Ellis

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