huntern.

Brit.

/ˈhʌntə/, U.S.

/ˈhən(t)ər/

Etymology: < hunt v. + -er suffix¹.

1. A man who hunts.

a. One engaged in the chase of wild animals; a huntsman.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun]

huntc1000

huntera1325

cacherec1340

pricasourc1387

waithmanc1425

chaser1470

huntsman1567

pricker1575

Nimrod1623

venator1656

fieldmana1683

sportsman1699

coureur de bois1700

sporting parson1757

chasseur1796

jäger1823

shikari1827

venerer1845

hunting-man1859

gamer1887

hunterman1891

veldman1895

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1481 Esau wilde man, huntere, And Iacob tame man, tiliere.

c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 780 The hunterys in the regne of Trace.

c1420 Anturs of Arth. v The hunteres thay haulen, by hurstes and by hoes.

1486 Bk. St. Albans E iij b The hunter shall rewarde hem then with the hede.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iii. sig. P^v A goodly Ladie clad in hunters weed.

1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 639 Last Satturday 9 highwaymen mett and robb'd 7 hunters, near Ingerstone, in Essex.

1735 W. Somervile Chace i. 37 When Nimrod bold, That mighty Hunter, first made War on Beasts.

1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xiv. 482 In a population which lives on the produce of the chase, each hunter requires on an average 50,000 acres.

b. figurative and gen. One who hunts or searches eagerly for something; a seeker. (Most frequently in combination, as fortune-hunter, place-hunter.)

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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > searcher or seeker

seekerc1330

hunterc1374

searchera1382

explorator1583

questa1616

questanta1616

ferret1629

quester1629

perquisitor1656

questor1887

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Add. MS.) i. pr. iii. 12 We scorne swiche rauiners and honters [Camb. MS. henters] of foulest[e] þinges.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. AAiiii The hunter of mannes soule.

1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Aviii Whorehunters and robbers of glorie.

1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord in Wks. (1815) VIII. 52 They are the duke of Bedford's natural hunters; and he is their natural game.

1811 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. v. 157 Are you a good motto hunter?

c. Military (tr. German jäger, French chasseur.)

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > rifleman

hunter1753

rifleman1764

shirtman1775

jäger1776

yager1804

bersagliere1862

shootist1864

rifle1933

society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > rifle

hunter1753

rifleman1764

rifler1775

shirtman1775

jäger1776

yager1804

rifle shot1826

bersagliere1862

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xxxiv. 209 Besides the Hussars, the king has a small body of men whom they call hunters, who are reputed the most faithful couriers in his army.

1761 Brit. Mag. 2 443 Lieutenant-colonel de Stockhausen had..posted himself in the Solling with his hunters and cannon.

a. A horse used, or adapted for use, in hunting.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > used in hunting

chasera1300

hunter1687

huntress1858

1687 London Gaz. No. 2296/4 A milk white Mare above 14 hands..a very good Hunter.

1786 H. L. Piozzi Anecd. Johnson 206 He certainly rode on Mr. Thrale's old hunter.

1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xvi. 120 The dash and decision with which, upon a thorough~bred hunter, he rode to hounds.

b. A dog used in or adapted for hunting.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog

kennet?a1400

greffier1575

velter1598

lucern1607

huntera1616

ranger1616

gun-dog1746

sporter1825

hunting dog1833

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 98 The valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The House-keeper, the Hunter .

1685 London Gaz. No. 2037/4 To be sold 14 Couple of Harriers, very good Hunters, and have good Mouths.

1898 Daily News 5 Oct. 6/6 A very close hunter, and a fine hound to boot.

a. An animal that hunts or chases its prey.

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the world > animals > by eating habits > [noun] > carnivore > predator

beast of preya1398

beast of ravina1425

fowl of reif1457

ravina1626

hunter1667

predacean1835

predator1908

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > animal that hunts prey

hunter1667

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 188 The Beast that reigns in Woods, First Hunter then.

1885 A. Brassey In Trades 133 The most formidable of these insects appears to be the ‘hunter ant’.

b. = hunting spider n. at hunting adj. Compounds.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > member of family Lycosidae

wolf1608

wolf-spider1608

hunter1658

hunting spider1665

hunter-spider1867

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1058 Spiders..others live in the open air, and from their greediness are called hunters or wolves.

c. The Jamaican cuckoo, Hyetornis pluvialis.

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > piaya pluvialis

old man1694

rain-fowl1694

rainbird1725

rain cuckoo1782

hunter1847

1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill Birds of Jamaica 277 Hunter. Old Man.—Rainbird... The appellation of Rainbird is indiscriminately applied to both this and the preceding [sc. Saurothera vetula], as is, in a lesser degree, that of Old Man. I use a term by which I have heard it distinguished,..perhaps derived from the perseverance with which it hunts..for its prey.

1960 J. Bond Birds W. Indies 116 Chestnut-bellied cuckoo. Hyetornis pluvialis. Local names: Old Man Bird; Hunter; Rain Bird.

4. = hunting-watch n. at hunting n. Compounds 2.

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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > particular types of watch

German watch1611

larum watch1619

clock-watch1625

minute watch1660

pendulum watch1664

watch1666

alarm watch1669

finger watch1679

string-watch1686

scout1688

balance-watch1690

hour-watch1697

warming-pan1699

minute pendulum watch1705

jewel watch1711

suit1718

repeater1725

Tompion1727

pendulum spring1728

second-watch1755

Geneva watch1756

cylinder-watch1765

watch-paper1777

ring watch1788

verge watch1792

watch lamp1823

hack1827

bull's-eye1833

vertical watch1838

quarter-repeater1840

turnip1840

hunting-watch1843

minute repeater1843

hunter1851

job watch1851

Geneva1852

watch-lining1856

touch watch1860

musical watch1864

lever1865

neep1866

verge1871

independent seconds watch1875

stem-winder1875

demi-hunter1884

fob-watch1884

three-quarter plate1884

wrist-watch1897

turnip-watch1898

sedan-chair watch1904

Rolex1922

Tank watch1923

strap watch1926

chatelaine watch1936

sedan clock1950

quartz watch1969

pulsar1970

1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1268 A hunter, engraved, enamel dial, 1½ inches diameter.

1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 122 Hunter, a watch case that has a metal cover over the dial.

Compounds

C1. (In sense 1.)

hunter-boy n.

ΚΠ

1823 W. Scott Mac Duff's Cross in J. Baillie Coll. of Poems 15 A hunter-boy blew horn beneath it.

hunter-craft n.

ΚΠ

1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. v. 57 Different tricks known in hunter-craft.

hunter-crew n.

hunter-goddess n.

ΚΠ

1838 J. Pardoe River & Desart II. 53 Dedicated to the Hunter-Goddess.

hunter-spear n.

ΚΠ

1483 Cath. Angl. 192/2 An Hunter spere, venabulum.

hunter-train n.

hunter-troop n.

hunter-warrior n.

hunter-like adj.

ΚΠ

1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos i. sig. B.i Hunterlyke her bow she bare, her lockes went with the wynd.

hunter-seeming adj.

C2. (In sense 2.)

hunter action n.

hunter-breeder n.

ΚΠ

1856 ‘The Druid’ Post & Paddock i. 2 An old hunter-breeder's confession.

hunter-breeding n.

ΚΠ

1856 ‘The Druid’ Post & Paddock i. 7 The Shropshire men..are more careful, both as to pedigree and style, in their hunter-breeding.

hunter-fancier n.

hunter-horse n.

ΚΠ

1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 240 The Hunter-Horse, Once kind Associate of his sylvan Toils.

hunter-steed n.

ΚΠ

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 568 Young Ornithus bestrode a Hunter Steed.

C3. (In sense 3.)

hunter ant n.

ΚΠ

1885Hunter ant [see sense 3a].

hunter-spider n. = sense 3b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > member of family Lycosidae

wolf1608

wolf-spider1608

hunter1658

hunting spider1665

hunter-spider1867

1867 G. Lincecum in Amer. Naturalist 1 409 This very large hunter-spider [sc. the tarantula] makes its appearance in Texas some years as early as the twenty-fifth of May.

hunter-state n.

ΚΠ

1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 23 When the habits of the hunter state predominated over those of the pastoral, venison was more eaten than the flesh of..sheep.

C4. Combinations with hunter's, in specialized senses.

hunter pudding n. (see quots.).

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > plum pudding

plum pudding1630

Christmas puddingc1650

hunting-pudding1786

hunter pudding1815

cabinet pudding1821

college-pudding1829

plum duff1834

Spotted Dick1849

spotted dog1852

1815 L. Simond Jrnl. Tour Great Brit. I. 45 This plum-pudding..This precious faculty of not losing anything from waiting, has made it be named emphatically Hunter's Pudding, Pudding de Chasseur.

hunter's beef n.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > preserved meat > [noun] > salted meat

Martinmas meatc1450

Martinmas beefc1475

powder beef1479

Martinmas flesh1656

Irish horse1748

bully1753

junk1762

salt junk1792

salt horse1836

red horse1864

hunter's beef1879

bullamacow1887

Jack1890

macon1939

1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 55 A hump of beef is..best spiced and cured, as hunter's beef is made at home.

hunter's green n. (see quot. 1957).

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > dark green

steel-greena1560

moss green1705

bottle1784

corbeau1810

forest-green1810

rifle green1829

spinach-green1845

hunter's green1872

moss1897

army green1908

jungle green1946

loden1964

1872 Young Englishwoman Nov. 599/1 Sombre greens,..chasseur, or hunter's-green, myrtle, cypress.

1957 M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 181/2 Hunter's green, dark, slightly yellowish green.

† hunter's mass n. [compare German jägermesse] Obsolete ‘a short mass said in great haste for hunters who were eager to start for the chase’ (Nares).

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society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > kinds of mass > [noun] > for hunters

hunter's mass1595

hunting mass1597

1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies 60 A Gentleman pray'd him to say a Hunters Masse (meaning a briefe Masse).

hunter's moon n. a name for the full moon next after the harvest moon n.

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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > full moon > hunter's moon

hunter's moon1710

1710 Brit. Apollo 4–6 Sept. The Country People call this the Hunters-Moon.

1854 L. Tomlinson tr. D. F. J. Arago Pop. Lect. Astron. 171 There can, therefore, be but two full moons in the year which rise during a week almost at the same time as the sun sets; the former, occurring in September, is called the Harvest-Moon; and the latter, in the month of October, being in a similar predicament, is termed the Hunter's Moon.

C5.

hunter-killer adj. designating a naval vessel or group of vessels equipped to locate and destroy enemy vessels, esp. submarines. Also as n.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [adjective] > other types of war vessel

bastard1578

pre-Dreadnought1908

pocket1929

hunter-killer1948

1948 Proc. U.S. Naval Inst. 74 505/2 The other two will be classified as ‘hunter-killers’—destroyers with the prime purpose of tracking down submarines, instead of operating on convoy duty.

1950 Jane's Fighting Ships 1950–51 7 A new anti-submarine type of light cruiser, known as a hunter-killer ship, will be completed in 1951.

1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Dec. 771/3 The escort carrier Guadalcanal and her ‘hunter-killer’ group of four escort destroyers.

1962 Daily Tel. 10 Dec. 18/4 Britain's first nuclear hunter-killer submarine, is expected to leave the..yard of her builders,..on Wednesday or Thursday for sea-trials.

1972 Sci. Amer. July 16/3 A hunter-killer submarine is large enough to carry an array of hydrophones to produce a narrow listening beam for long-range detection.

Draft additions December 2022

† A type of riding whip. Cf. half hunter n. 1. Obsolete.

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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > urge on > with a whip > (types of) whip

wandc1400

rod?a1475

riding rod?a1549

switch1597

quirka1616

whippet1616

shambrier1667

horsewhipa1691

whip-stick1782

lash-whip1787

flogger1789

string1839

nagaika1842

whalebone1842

quirt1845

switcher1847

ash-plant1850

hunting-crop1857

dick1864

bow-whip1890

1738 Daily Gazetteer 28 July To be sold by Auction,..Crop Whips, Hunters and Half Hunters, and very neat Switches.

1892 Saddlery & Harness May 173/1 Braided work, including under this heading..what the trade call ‘Hunters’..and gut and bone Hunting Crops.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2022).

单词	hunter
释义	huntern. Brit. /ˈhʌntə/, U.S. /ˈhən(t)ər/ Etymology: < hunt v. + -er suffix¹. 1. A man who hunts. a. One engaged in the chase of wild animals; a huntsman. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] huntc1000 huntera1325 cacherec1340 pricasourc1387 waithmanc1425 chaser1470 huntsman1567 pricker1575 Nimrod1623 venator1656 fieldmana1683 sportsman1699 coureur de bois1700 sporting parson1757 chasseur1796 jäger1823 shikari1827 venerer1845 hunting-man1859 gamer1887 hunterman1891 veldman1895 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1481 Esau wilde man, huntere, And Iacob tame man, tiliere. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 780 The hunterys in the regne of Trace. c1420 Anturs of Arth. v The hunteres thay haulen, by hurstes and by hoes. 1486 Bk. St. Albans E iij b The hunter shall rewarde hem then with the hede. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iii. sig. P^v A goodly Ladie clad in hunters weed. 1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 639 Last Satturday 9 highwaymen mett and robb'd 7 hunters, near Ingerstone, in Essex. 1735 W. Somervile Chace i. 37 When Nimrod bold, That mighty Hunter, first made War on Beasts. 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xiv. 482 In a population which lives on the produce of the chase, each hunter requires on an average 50,000 acres. b. figurative and gen. One who hunts or searches eagerly for something; a seeker. (Most frequently in combination, as fortune-hunter, place-hunter.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > searcher or seeker seekerc1330 hunterc1374 searchera1382 explorator1583 questa1616 questanta1616 ferret1629 quester1629 perquisitor1656 questor1887 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Add. MS.) i. pr. iii. 12 We scorne swiche rauiners and honters [Camb. MS. henters] of foulest[e] þinges. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. AAiiii The hunter of mannes soule. 1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Aviii Whorehunters and robbers of glorie. 1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord in Wks. (1815) VIII. 52 They are the duke of Bedford's natural hunters; and he is their natural game. 1811 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. v. 157 Are you a good motto hunter? c. Military (tr. German jäger, French chasseur.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > rifleman hunter1753 rifleman1764 shirtman1775 jäger1776 yager1804 bersagliere1862 shootist1864 rifle1933 society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > rifle hunter1753 rifleman1764 rifler1775 shirtman1775 jäger1776 yager1804 rifle shot1826 bersagliere1862 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xxxiv. 209 Besides the Hussars, the king has a small body of men whom they call hunters, who are reputed the most faithful couriers in his army. 1761 Brit. Mag. 2 443 Lieutenant-colonel de Stockhausen had..posted himself in the Solling with his hunters and cannon. 2. a. A horse used, or adapted for use, in hunting. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > used in hunting chasera1300 hunter1687 huntress1858 1687 London Gaz. No. 2296/4 A milk white Mare above 14 hands..a very good Hunter. 1786 H. L. Piozzi Anecd. Johnson 206 He certainly rode on Mr. Thrale's old hunter. 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xvi. 120 The dash and decision with which, upon a thorough~bred hunter, he rode to hounds. b. A dog used in or adapted for hunting. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog kennet?a1400 greffier1575 velter1598 lucern1607 huntera1616 ranger1616 gun-dog1746 sporter1825 hunting dog1833 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 98 The valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The House-keeper, the Hunter . View more context for this quotation 1685 London Gaz. No. 2037/4 To be sold 14 Couple of Harriers, very good Hunters, and have good Mouths. 1898 Daily News 5 Oct. 6/6 A very close hunter, and a fine hound to boot. 3. a. An animal that hunts or chases its prey. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by eating habits > [noun] > carnivore > predator beast of preya1398 beast of ravina1425 fowl of reif1457 ravina1626 hunter1667 predacean1835 predator1908 the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > animal that hunts prey hunter1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 188 The Beast that reigns in Woods, First Hunter then. View more context for this quotation 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 133 The most formidable of these insects appears to be the ‘hunter ant’. b. = hunting spider n. at hunting adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > member of family Lycosidae wolf1608 wolf-spider1608 hunter1658 hunting spider1665 hunter-spider1867 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1058 Spiders..others live in the open air, and from their greediness are called hunters or wolves. c. The Jamaican cuckoo, Hyetornis pluvialis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > piaya pluvialis old man1694 rain-fowl1694 rainbird1725 rain cuckoo1782 hunter1847 1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill Birds of Jamaica 277 Hunter. Old Man.—Rainbird... The appellation of Rainbird is indiscriminately applied to both this and the preceding [sc. Saurothera vetula], as is, in a lesser degree, that of Old Man. I use a term by which I have heard it distinguished,..perhaps derived from the perseverance with which it hunts..for its prey. 1960 J. Bond Birds W. Indies 116 Chestnut-bellied cuckoo. Hyetornis pluvialis. Local names: Old Man Bird; Hunter; Rain Bird. 4. = hunting-watch n. at hunting n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > particular types of watch German watch1611 larum watch1619 clock-watch1625 minute watch1660 pendulum watch1664 watch1666 alarm watch1669 finger watch1679 string-watch1686 scout1688 balance-watch1690 hour-watch1697 warming-pan1699 minute pendulum watch1705 jewel watch1711 suit1718 repeater1725 Tompion1727 pendulum spring1728 second-watch1755 Geneva watch1756 cylinder-watch1765 watch-paper1777 ring watch1788 verge watch1792 watch lamp1823 hack1827 bull's-eye1833 vertical watch1838 quarter-repeater1840 turnip1840 hunting-watch1843 minute repeater1843 hunter1851 job watch1851 Geneva1852 watch-lining1856 touch watch1860 musical watch1864 lever1865 neep1866 verge1871 independent seconds watch1875 stem-winder1875 demi-hunter1884 fob-watch1884 three-quarter plate1884 wrist-watch1897 turnip-watch1898 sedan-chair watch1904 Rolex1922 Tank watch1923 strap watch1926 chatelaine watch1936 sedan clock1950 quartz watch1969 pulsar1970 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1268 A hunter, engraved, enamel dial, 1½ inches diameter. 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 122 Hunter, a watch case that has a metal cover over the dial. Compounds C1. (In sense 1.) a. hunter-boy n. ΚΠ 1823 W. Scott Mac Duff's Cross in J. Baillie Coll. of Poems 15 A hunter-boy blew horn beneath it. hunter-craft n. ΚΠ 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. v. 57 Different tricks known in hunter-craft. hunter-crew n. hunter-goddess n. ΚΠ 1838 J. Pardoe River & Desart II. 53 Dedicated to the Hunter-Goddess. hunter-spear n. ΚΠ 1483 Cath. Angl. 192/2 An Hunter spere, venabulum. hunter-train n. hunter-troop n. hunter-warrior n. b. hunter-like adj. ΚΠ 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos i. sig. B.i Hunterlyke her bow she bare, her lockes went with the wynd. hunter-seeming adj. C2. (In sense 2.) hunter action n. hunter-breeder n. ΚΠ 1856 ‘The Druid’ Post & Paddock i. 2 An old hunter-breeder's confession. hunter-breeding n. ΚΠ 1856 ‘The Druid’ Post & Paddock i. 7 The Shropshire men..are more careful, both as to pedigree and style, in their hunter-breeding. hunter-fancier n. hunter-horse n. ΚΠ 1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 240 The Hunter-Horse, Once kind Associate of his sylvan Toils. hunter-steed n. ΚΠ 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 568 Young Ornithus bestrode a Hunter Steed. C3. (In sense 3.) hunter ant n. ΚΠ 1885Hunter ant [see sense 3a]. hunter-spider n. = sense 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > member of family Lycosidae wolf1608 wolf-spider1608 hunter1658 hunting spider1665 hunter-spider1867 1867 G. Lincecum in Amer. Naturalist 1 409 This very large hunter-spider [sc. the tarantula] makes its appearance in Texas some years as early as the twenty-fifth of May. hunter-state n. ΚΠ 1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 23 When the habits of the hunter state predominated over those of the pastoral, venison was more eaten than the flesh of..sheep. C4. Combinations with hunter's, in specialized senses. hunter pudding n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > plum pudding plum pudding1630 Christmas puddingc1650 hunting-pudding1786 hunter pudding1815 cabinet pudding1821 college-pudding1829 plum duff1834 Spotted Dick1849 spotted dog1852 1815 L. Simond Jrnl. Tour Great Brit. I. 45 This plum-pudding..This precious faculty of not losing anything from waiting, has made it be named emphatically Hunter's Pudding, Pudding de Chasseur. hunter's beef n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > preserved meat > [noun] > salted meat Martinmas meatc1450 Martinmas beefc1475 powder beef1479 Martinmas flesh1656 Irish horse1748 bully1753 junk1762 salt junk1792 salt horse1836 red horse1864 hunter's beef1879 bullamacow1887 Jack1890 macon1939 1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 55 A hump of beef is..best spiced and cured, as hunter's beef is made at home. hunter's green n. (see quot. 1957). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > dark green steel-greena1560 moss green1705 bottle1784 corbeau1810 forest-green1810 rifle green1829 spinach-green1845 hunter's green1872 moss1897 army green1908 jungle green1946 loden1964 1872 Young Englishwoman Nov. 599/1 Sombre greens,..chasseur, or hunter's-green, myrtle, cypress. 1957 M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 181/2 Hunter's green, dark, slightly yellowish green. † hunter's mass n. [compare German jägermesse] Obsolete ‘a short mass said in great haste for hunters who were eager to start for the chase’ (Nares). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > kinds of mass > [noun] > for hunters hunter's mass1595 hunting mass1597 1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies 60 A Gentleman pray'd him to say a Hunters Masse (meaning a briefe Masse). hunter's moon n. a name for the full moon next after the harvest moon n. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > full moon > hunter's moon hunter's moon1710 1710 Brit. Apollo 4–6 Sept. The Country People call this the Hunters-Moon. 1854 L. Tomlinson tr. D. F. J. Arago Pop. Lect. Astron. 171 There can, therefore, be but two full moons in the year which rise during a week almost at the same time as the sun sets; the former, occurring in September, is called the Harvest-Moon; and the latter, in the month of October, being in a similar predicament, is termed the Hunter's Moon. C5. hunter-killer adj. designating a naval vessel or group of vessels equipped to locate and destroy enemy vessels, esp. submarines. Also as n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [adjective] > other types of war vessel bastard1578 pre-Dreadnought1908 pocket1929 hunter-killer1948 1948 Proc. U.S. Naval Inst. 74 505/2 The other two will be classified as ‘hunter-killers’—destroyers with the prime purpose of tracking down submarines, instead of operating on convoy duty. 1950 Jane's Fighting Ships 1950–51 7 A new anti-submarine type of light cruiser, known as a hunter-killer ship, will be completed in 1951. 1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Dec. 771/3 The escort carrier Guadalcanal and her ‘hunter-killer’ group of four escort destroyers. 1962 Daily Tel. 10 Dec. 18/4 Britain's first nuclear hunter-killer submarine, is expected to leave the..yard of her builders,..on Wednesday or Thursday for sea-trials. 1972 Sci. Amer. July 16/3 A hunter-killer submarine is large enough to carry an array of hydrophones to produce a narrow listening beam for long-range detection. Draft additions December 2022 † A type of riding whip. Cf. half hunter n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > urge on > with a whip > (types of) whip wandc1400 rod?a1475 riding rod?a1549 switch1597 quirka1616 whippet1616 shambrier1667 horsewhipa1691 whip-stick1782 lash-whip1787 flogger1789 string1839 nagaika1842 whalebone1842 quirt1845 switcher1847 ash-plant1850 hunting-crop1857 dick1864 bow-whip1890 1738 Daily Gazetteer 28 July To be sold by Auction,..Crop Whips, Hunters and Half Hunters, and very neat Switches. 1892 Saddlery & Harness May 173/1 Braided work, including under this heading..what the trade call ‘Hunters’..and gut and bone Hunting Crops. 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