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sportsman|ˈspɔətsmən|
[f. sport n.1]
1. A man who follows, engages in, or practises sport; esp. one who hunts or shoots wild animals or game for pleasure.
Also transf., in recent use, one who in his conduct or dealings displays the typical good qualities of a sportsman.
1706–7Farquhar Beaux' Strat. i. i, Aim. A sportsman, I suppose? Bon. Yes, sir, he's a man of pleasure; he plays at whisk and smokes his pipe eight-and-forty hours together sometimes. 1727Gay Begg. Op. i. ii, A good sportsman always lets the hen-partridges fly. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xi. (1782) I. 367 His nephew..presumed to dart his javelin before that of his uncle... As a monarch and as a sportsman Odenathus was provoked. 1856Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxviii. 277 Our sportsmen would clamber up the cliffs and come back laden with little auks. 1894Outing XXIV. 476/1 Some have been true sportsmen—and as I take it, the phrase true sportsmen includes everything that is manly and gentlemanly.
transf.1831–3B. Hall Frag. Voy. & Trav. Ser. ii. I. 244 This skilful sea-sportsman [a dolphin] arranged all his springs..[so] that he contrived to fall, at the end of each, just under the very spot on which the exhausted Flying-fish were about to drop!
b. sportsman's companion, sportsman's knife (see quots.).
1863Athenæum 19 Dec. 841/3 Mr. Baskcomb exhibited an ancient nut-cracker, and a sportsman's companion, found at Tutbury Castle. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2288/1 Sportsman's Knife, one containing a number of tools, to be used in emergencies.
c. Electr. (See quots.)
1842Francis Dict. Arts & Sci. s.v., Electrical Sportsman, an amusing and ingenious instrument, to illustrate the fact that a charged electrical jar will discharge itself if the outer and inner coating approach too closely. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5598, Gas pistol, thunder house, sports⁓men, and other instrument[s] for showing the proportion of frictional electricity.
2. U.S. A gambler, betting-man.
1848in Bartlett. |