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ˈpig-hunting, vbl. n. Chiefly N.Z. Hist.
[f. pig. n.1 + hunting vbl. n.]
Hunting for wild pigs. Hence ˈpig-hunt v.; ˈpig-hunter. Also ˈpig-hunt n.
In quot. 1614 a humorous exaggeration.
1614B. Jonson Barth. Fair (1631) iii. ii. 34 These are Banbury-bloods, o' the sincere stud, come a pigge-hunting. 1845R. Burrows Diary 1 May (1886) 24 They..went off to pig-hunt. 1850C. O. Torlesse Torlesse Papers (1958) vii. 132 We have to cater for ourselves in the way of meat, which involves some pig hunting. 1851J. R. Clough Jrnl. 19 May in J. Deans Pioneers of Canterbury (1937) 293 Four pig-hunters came here; stopped all night. 1880J. C. Crawford Recoll. Trav. N.Z. & Austral. 163 Just below Puketapu we met a canoe laden with dogs going on a pig-hunting expedition. a1948L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs (1951) x. 262 In 1878..one of the shepherds, took a pig-hunting contract. 1961J. Reid Kiwi Laughs 9 The misfortunes of that pig-hunt which is an almost indispensable episode in fiction or memoirs. |