huntingn.
/ˈhʌntɪŋ/ 1. The action of hunt v.
a. The action or practice of chasing game or other wild animals, either for profit or sport; the chase.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun]
huntethc900
huntingc1000
sleatinga1122
purchasec1325
veneryc1330
venation1386
venison1390
the chase?a1400
chasing?a1400
waithc1400
huntc1405
vanchasea1425
enchase1486
vaunt-chase1575
field sport1580
shikara1613
huntsmanshipa1631
cynegetics1646
sport of kings1735
game hunting1823
blood sport1893
c1000 Ælfric Colloq. in Wright Voc. 5 Hwæt dest þu be þinre huntunge?
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10649 He hafeð bihalues Baðen his huntinge [c1300 Otho hontynge] bilæfued.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 349/148 Þat þis child scholde wende An hontingue.
c1480 (a1400) St. Blaise 60 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 363 Þe president til huntyne has his knychtis sent.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope 4 The studye of the huntynge and hawkynge is a slouful cure.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxciijv The king being on huntyng in the forest of Wychwod.
1696 tr. A. Duquesne New Voy. E.-Indies 134 No other Island..has better hunting.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 112 Constans..was pursuing in the adjacent forest his favourite amusement of hunting.
1781 P. Beckford (title) Thoughts on hunting.
1879 G. Campbell White & Black in U.S. 330 What they call ‘hunting’ in America is not hunting in our sense, but shooting; either ordinary shooting, or drives for big game.
b. With a and plural. A hunt, a chase.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > a hunt or expedition
huntinga950
hunting-matcha1637
maroon1779
drive1795
chevy1837
splitter1843
burning chase1854
a950 in J. Stevenson Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis (1840) 118 Of hvntvngvm.
c1420 Anturs of Arth. lv Suche a hunting in a holt, aw noȝte to be hidde.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. viii. iii. 391/1 That vpon the Lords Sabbath, publike Faires..Huntings, & all secular actions should not bee exercised.
c1650 Chevy Chase in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 311 A woefull hunting once there did In Cheuy Chase befall.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xxii. 263 I saw, in one of these Huntings, above a Dozen of Deer killed.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xx. 609 Services to be rendered in the royal huntings.
c. The chasing of their prey by animals.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > hunting by animals
huntingc1384
prey1721
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Macc. iii. 4 As whelp of lyoun rorynge in his huntyng.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 202 These Spiders..are nothing so eager of hunting as they are in Italy.
d. The action of chasing, pursuing or searching; a pursuit or search. Also with adv. as hunting-up, hunting-down.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun]
seeking1303
out-seekinga1382
searchinga1382
search1426
laita1500
searching out1531
hunting-down1542
fishing1548
research1577
upseeking1594
riping1815
questing1848
casting1856
the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [noun] > pursuit > hostile or violent
chasec1325
hunting-down1542
hunt1608
1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Aivv Than wyll they renne..a whorehuntyng after their false prophetes.
1589 L. Wright (title) The hunting of Antichrist.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. iii. 10 A hunting out of the causes.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Hunting, decoying, or drawing others into Play.
1796 P. Colquhoun Treat. Police of Metropolis 403 The driving of Cattle improperly, usually termed bullock-hunting.
1876 C. M. Yonge Womankind xxiv. 204 A hunting-up of faults.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 7 Sept. 5/1 Sweeping movements will give place to hunting-down tactics where the country favours the latter.
1945 Tribune 9 Nov. 11/1 The hunting-down of war criminals.
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e. Change-ringing. (See hunt v. 7.)
f. The action of a machine, instrument, system, etc., that is hunting (see hunt v. 7b); an undesirable oscillation about an equilibrium speed, position, or state.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > [noun] > undesirable oscillation
hunting1880
hunt1920
1880 R. E. Crompton Electr. Light for Industr. Use 21 This causes a swinging or, as it is called by engine men, a ‘hunting’ action of the governor.
1894 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 759 If the isochronous governor works a slow-acting relay the hunting may be so serious that the steam supply alternates between complete cut-off and full supply.
1920 Whittaker's Electr. Engineer's Pocket-bk. (ed. 4) 223 If the damping is very small, oscillations or hunting may go on for a considerable time before the machine finally rotates steadily.
1932 Discovery Oct. 331/1 There was no suggestion of ‘hunting’ and the image remained exactly central in the [television] screen for the whole half hour.
1942 Rev. Sci. Instruments XIII. 218 The recording is easily accomplished at pen speeds of 12·7 cm per second across 25 cm of chart without ‘hunting’ taking place.
1943 Electronic Engin. 15 438/2 A method for the determination of the power angle oscillations of a synchronous motor during hunting is described.
1950 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) i. 8 Hunting, an uncontrolled oscillation about the flight path, the amplitude of which remains approximately constant.
1950 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) i. 45 Hunting, angular oscillation of a [rotor] blade about the drag hinge.
1951 Engineering 6 Apr. 401/3 The train was derailed..because of a slight but periodic variation in the cant of the track which synchronised with the hunting periodicity of the engine.
1951 S. Deutsch Theory & Design Television Receivers xiii. 431 Hunting is revealed by a horizontal weaving or vibration of the picture.
1959 Times 27 Apr. (Rubber Industry Suppl.) p. vi/5 The control of the side-to-side swaying known to railway engineers as ‘hunting’.
1968 Practical Motorist Dec. 459/1 Hunting, a rhythmical increase and decrease in the idling speed of an engine, caused by an over-rich mixture.
1971 Nature 2 Apr. 283/1 Society, regarded as a non-linear feedback system, is showing the signs of oscillation (‘hunting’) which one expects.
g. Telephony. An operation in which a selector or switch automatically goes through a group of lines until it reaches a free one and makes connection with it; now used esp. of the connection of a calling line with one of a group of outgoing lines.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > methods and procedures
release1882
trunking1896
hunting1912
dialling1927
hunt1927
trunk dialling1952
direct distance dialling1955
direct dialling1958
dial-up1967
1912 J. Poole Pract. Telephone Handbk. (ed. 5) xxxii. 528 There is no ‘hunting’ for disengaged lines as in the case of selectors.
1933 K. B. Miller Telephone Theory & Pract. III. v. 263 Automatic trunk hunting may be necessary to find an idle line.
1966 M. Rubin & C. E. Haller Communication Switching Syst. i. 31 In the Ericsson 500-line switch..the select motion is a rotation and the hunting action is radially outward to a free trunk.
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the world > animals > animals hunted > [noun] > caught or killed in hunting
gamec1300
purchasec1325
venison1338
huntinga1500
hunt1588
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. v. 58 Haue, ete, fader, of myn huntyng.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 163 Pindus..did daily giue vnto him the greatest part of his hunting.
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C1. Of, belonging to, used or worn in, adapted for, or engaged in hunting.
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hunting-bit n.
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1696 London Gaz. No. 3217/4 A white Leather Side Saddle, and Hunting-Bit.
hunting boat n.
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1828 Western Monthly Rev. 1 577 The passengers of the hunting boats..saw him.
1894 Outing 23 389/1 A one-hatch bidarka, or hunting boat, of the Aleutian Islands.
hunting-boot n.
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1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 521/1 Men's black English grain leather ‘hunting boots’, double sole, laced leg and instep.
1928 S. Sassoon Mem. Fox-hunting Man 143 I was going to try on my new hunting clothes and my new hunting boots.
1957 M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 181/2 Hunting boot, high, laced boot with waterproof sole.
hunting-bout n.
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1742 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Antiq. Rome li, in tr. A. Palladio Architecture (ed. 3) II. 83 Beasts..either for publick Hunting-bouts, or for the Shows in the Amphitheatres.
hunting bridle n.
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1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. p. xxxix Hunting bridles.
1963 L. F. Bloodgood & P. Santini Horseman's Dict. 111 Hunting bridle, any bridle suitable for hunting.
1963 E. H. Edwards Saddlery iii. 32 Hunting bridles should be made of leather having plenty of substance and the width of the cheek will probably be ¾ in. with the rein.
hunting-cap n.
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1814 J. Mayne Jrnl. (1909) 184 The postilions..do not, like our royal drivers, wear hunting-caps.
1946 M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 219 Hunting cap, the velvet cap worn by farmers, Masters and Servants of the hunt.
hunting carpet n.
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1931 A. U. Dilley Oriental Rugs & Carpets Pl. 9 (caption) Finest Extant Hunting Carpet, Middle Sixteenth Century.
1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 146/1 Hunting carpets, Persian carpets with elaborate hunting scenes, realistically depicted.
hunting-clothes n.
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1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis iv. xiii. 282 Comming in his hunting-clothes.
hunting-coat n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > for specific purpose > other
dust-coat1702
hunting-coat1789
pinkc1791
reading-coat1830
wedding-coat1838
zephyr1843
lab coat1895
tea-coat1899
stroller1901
bridge coat1905
sport coat1917
sportster1929
laboratory coatc1936
car coat1956
1789 R. F. Greville Diary 16 Jan. (1930) 171 Asked Me if I had my Hunting Coat with Me.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 9 Oct. 15/1 Ladies..may always choose a little, short coat, known to French tailors as a hunting coat.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 15 Oct. 10/1 (advt.) Pheasant Shooting Begins..Hunting Coats, with front and rear game pockets, £8.75.
1928 S. Sassoon Mem. Fox-hunting Man 136 Stephen, who was wearing a pink silk cap and a long-skirted black hunting-coat, silently received from the groom the saddle and weight-cloth.
hunting-country n.
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1708 London Gaz. No. 4439/4 An Estate..situated..in..a good Hunting Country.
1946 M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 219 Nothing even faintly resembling the English hunting country exists in North America.
hunting-craft n.
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1808 W. Scott Marmion i. viii. 30 Each..Knew hunting-craft by lake and wood.
hunting-cry n.
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1865 Ld. Tennyson Let. 17 Feb. (1987) II. 392 I have ascertained that weasels have a hunting-cry.
hunting-day n.
hunting-dress n.
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1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 9 Wearing neither hunting-dress Nor weapon.
hunting-excursion n.
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1801 A. Mackenzie Voy. from Montreal 113 The Indians went on an hunting excursion.
1856 M. J. Holmes 'Lena Rivers xxvi. 282 He had gone off on a hunting excursion.
hunting-frock n.
hunting-gear n.
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c1450 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 482/2 (MS. Coll. Arms) Ofte holdeth he an honde swerdes, bowes, and huntyngere.
hunting-habit n.
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1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 104. ⁋3 The Model of this Amazonian Hunting-Habit for Ladies, was, as I take it, first imported from France.]
1881 Mrs. P. O'Donoghue Ladies on Horseback iii. vi. 83 If a hunting-habit be properly cut it will require no shotting.
hunting-hat n.
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1881 Mrs. P. O'Donoghue Ladies on Horseback iii. vi. 253 That hunting-hats frequently fall off.
hunting-horse n.
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1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Equus Venator equus, a hunting horse.
1686 London Gaz. No. 2187/4 The keeping of Hunting-Horses.
hunting-javelin n.
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1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis iv. xiii. 282 In his hand hee held his hunting-Iauelin.
hunting-knife n.
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1803 in Minnesota Hist. (1940) XXI. 126 When the defendant came to pierce his tent with his hunting knife..the larger part of the goods had already been moved to the spot agreed upon.
1842 C. G. F. Gore Fascination 92 His girdle was garnished with horn-handled hunting-knives.
1933 B. Willoughby Alaskans All 3 His flannel shirt, high laced boots, the hunting-knife in his belt..made it difficult for me to realize he was a priest.
1949 Chicago Tribune 22 June ii. 1/4 A policeman took a 6 inch hunting knife from the waist of one of the white boys.
hunting-language n.
hunting-nag n.
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a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 81 Like a Hunting-nag, [he] leaps over what he cannot get through.
hunting-net n.
hunting-party n.
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1788 W. Blane Acct. Hunting Excurs. 3 His annual hunting party.
1805 Sibley in Ann. 9th Congr. 2 Sess. 1089 Besides these, there are rambling hunting-parties of them to be met all over Lower Louisiana.
1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 3 To pass a night in the woods is a small affair for a hunting-party.
1870 De B. R. Keim Sheridan's Troopers (1885) xxvii. 192 It rarely happens that a hunting-party returns without a fight, or at least, being pursued.
hunting path n.
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1820 in Minnesota Hist. (1942) XXIII. 249 We found a hunting path which..led directly to Sandy Lake.
1821 T. Nuttall Jrnl. Trav. Arkansa Territory 167 We here crossed by a hunting path.
hunting-place n.
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1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 96 Buildings into which Beasts were brought, which they called Hunting-Places.
hunting-pole n.
hunting pony n.
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1886 Outing Apr. 7/1 I was riding a well-trained hunting pony.
hunting print n.
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1967 N. Freeling Strike Out 72 He makes these series of kind of huntin' prints.
1973 M. Mackintosh King & Two Queens v. 76 Eighteenth-century English hunting prints hung on the pine-panelled walls.
hunting rifle n.
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1856 in Kansas State Hist. Soc. Trans. (1890) IV. 504 The marauders were well armed with muskets,..hunting rifles,..bowie-knives, etc.
1886 Outing Mar. 615 No hunting-rifles in the world possess greater accuracy.
1956 ‘E. McBain’ Cop Hater (1963) xix. 143 He said he'd shot himself while cleaning his hunting rifle.
hunting-saddle n.
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1678 London Gaz. No. 1274/4 A Black Gelding..having on him a hunting Saddle, and a blew Saddle-Cloth.
hunting-season n.
hunting show n.
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1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 96 In the Canons of the Synod called Quinisestus, the Hunting-Shews were prohibited.
hunting-skirt n.
hunting-spear n.
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1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 33 A battle-axe, a hunting spear.
hunting-spur n.
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1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 148 A paire of hunting spurres parcelle gilt.
hunting-staff n.
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a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James III in Wks. (1711) 42 Sir Alexander Boyd..struck the reverend Governour with a Hunting-staff upon the Head.
hunting-sword n.
hunting-term n.
hunting-tide n.
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1869 Ld. Tennyson Pelleas & Ettarre 359 That all the old echoes hidden in the wall Rang out like hollow woods at hunting-tide.
hunting tie n.
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c1840 Lady Wilton Art of Needlework xiii. 189 The Hibernian Tie: The Eastern Tie: The Hunting Tie: The Yankee Tie.
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) p. xxxix Hunting ties, ladies'.
hunting-toil n.
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a1861 E. B. Browning Last Poems (1862) 122 The Loxian goddess might Repose so from her hunting-toil aright.
hunting-voyage n.
hunting-whip n.
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1683 London Gaz. No. 1842/8 A long Hunting-Whip, with an Ivory handle.
1859 J. S. Rarey Art of taming Horses (new ed.) ix. 149 Every hunting-whip should have a lash, but it need not be long.
b. For the accommodation of huntsmen.
hunting-camp n.
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1770 G. Washington Writings (1889) II. 310 The Indians..have their hunting-camps and cabins all along the river.
1805 M. Lewis in Ann. 9th Congr. 2 Sess. 1069 [The Algonquins have] establishments on the rivers Winnipie and Rainy Lake, and at their hunting-camps.
1840 Knickerbocker Mag. 16 161 We shifted our hunting-camps from place to place, according as we found the game.
1897 Outing (U.S.) 30 374/2 What will be necessary for the smaller hunting-camp..will find its place later on.
hunting-house n.
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1686 J. Dunton Lett. from New Eng. (1867) 277 Guides who will..oftentimes find out Hunting-Houses, and other Lodgings at night.
hunting-lodge n.
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1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 6 A solitary Indian hunting-lodge, built with branches of trees.
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 19 The old manorial Hall..is cut down into a villa, or a hunting-lodge.
hunting tower n.
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1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) I. 118 An Eminence, where now stands an Hunting-tower of Brick.
c. Of horses used in hunting.
hunting-stable n.
C2. † hunting mass n. Obsolete = hunter's mass n. at hunter n. Compounds 4.† hunting-match n. Obsolete a hunt taken part in by a number of persons.† hunting oath n. Obsolete a bold or outspoken oath such as a huntsman might utter.† hunting tail n. Obsolete a horse's tail cut in the manner practised with horses used for hunting.
hunting-box n. a small house for occupation during the hunting season (see box n.2 29).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > hunting lodge > [noun]
lodge1465
forest-house1646
hunting-seat1716
sporting-box1787
hunting-box1799
shooting box1812
forest-lodge1847
shooting-lodge1859
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > hunting-lodge
lodge1465
forest-house1646
hunting-seat1716
sporting-box1787
hunting-box1799
shooting box1812
forest-lodge1847
shooting-lodge1859
1799 Times 1 June 4/3 A Family Cottage, or Hunting Box, pleasantly situate in a sporting part of the country.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. x. 208 Some small hunting-box in the vicinity of every thing so dear. View more context for this quotation
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. iii. viii. 315 The old Admiral..has a hunting-box in the neighbourhood.
hunting-case n. a watch-case with a hinged cover to protect the glass (originally against accidents in hunting).
hunting-coal n. (see quot. 1883).
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1883 Standard 16 Jan. 2/4 Hunting coal was what was left after general workings.
hunting-crop n. a straight whipstock with a leather loop for insertion of a thong or lash (crop n. 7c).
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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
1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone iv. 30 Hunting~crops and heavy cutting-whips.
1881 Mrs. P. O'Donoghue Ladies on Horseback 218 A short hunting-crop without a lash would do.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 217 Light hunting crops having slender thongs.
hunting-field n. the field or ground on which a hunt, esp. a fox-hunt, is going on; (also) the body of mounted huntsmen following the hounds.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun]
fieldOE
forest1297
seta1425
chasea1440
hunting-fieldc1680
hunting-ground1721
flying county1856
hunt1857
moor1860
the Shires1860
driving moor1873
beat1875
killing ground1877
flying country1883
killing field1915
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > group or band of hunters
blast1486
fadea1522
stalec1540
hunting-fieldc1680
chase1811
field1818
harriers1877
c1680 Edward Duke of York in J. Taylor Scot. Covenant. (Cassell) 117 There would never be peace in Scotland till the whole of the country south of the Forth was turned into a hunting-field.
1859 J. S. Rarey Art of taming Horses (new ed.) i. 22 [His] equestrian performances on the course and in the hunting-field.
1873 R. E. Egerton-Warburton Hunting Songs (new ed.) 194 Each in turn first and foremost the hunting field led.
a1899 Mod. He lost his life accidentally in the hunting-field.
hunting-flask n. a flask for liquor, carried during hunting.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > carrying flask > for liquor
pocket pistol1754
hunting-flask1823
tea-canister1859
hip flask1888
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. vii. 156 He has a hunting-flask usually about him, which contains as good medicine as your's to the full.
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hunting-jug n. a jug adorned with figures of huntsmen, horses, dogs, stags, etc.
hunting leopard n. the Cheetah ( Felis jubata), which is tamed and used in hunting in India.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [noun] > genus Acinonyx (cheetah)
papion?a1425
ounce1704
cheetah1774
hunting leopard1781
spotted tiger1787
tiger of chase1787
guepard1900
1781 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 2 The hunting Leopard, or Indian Chittah.
1881 W. W. Hunter Imperial Gazetteer India IV. 619 The cheetah or hunting leopard..must be carefully distinguished from the leopard proper.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > kinds of mass > [noun] > for hunters
hunter's mass1595
hunting mass1597
1597 King James VI & I Daemonologie i. v. 18 Like a Papist Priest, dispatching a hunting Masse.
1845 Neale Mirror Faith 15 King Oswald heareth hunting-mass.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > a hunt or expedition
huntinga950
hunting-matcha1637
maroon1779
drive1795
chevy1837
splitter1843
burning chase1854
a1637 B. Jonson Timber 2674 in Wks. (1640) III What neede wee know any thing..more then a Horse-race, or a hunting-match.
1708 J. Swift Predict. for 1708 2 Nor dare to propose a Hunting Match.
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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [noun]
oatha1225
hunting oath1570
forbode1575
exorcism1601
expletive1647
rapper1675
oathlet1835
expletion1836
emphatic1868
swear1871
rounder1885
the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > curse > [noun] > as everyday imprecation > as uttered by huntsman
hunting oath1570
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1045/2 Swearing and ragyng wyth an huntyng othe or two.
hunting-piece n. a picture representing a hunting scene.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > paintings of other scenes
pageant1451
fire piece1592
rhopographer1730
candlelight1763
hunting-piece1765
interior1829
fête galante1851
1765 H. Walpole Let. 5 Dec. in Lett. Countess of Suffolk (1824) II. 314 Huge hunting-pieces in frames of all-coloured golds.
hunting pink n. scarlet when worn by fox-hunters; a scarlet hunting-coat; cf. pink n.5 6a.
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1900 Daily News 24 Feb. 6/7 A short coat in hunting pink.
hunting-pudding n. = hunter pudding n. at hunter n. Compounds 4.
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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
1786 A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscretions IV. 26 She was famous for making hunting puddings.
hunting-seat n. a country-house reserved for occupation during the hunting season.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > hunting lodge > [noun]
lodge1465
forest-house1646
hunting-seat1716
sporting-box1787
hunting-box1799
shooting box1812
forest-lodge1847
shooting-lodge1859
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > hunting-lodge
lodge1465
forest-house1646
hunting-seat1716
sporting-box1787
hunting-box1799
shooting box1812
forest-lodge1847
shooting-lodge1859
1716 J. Addison Free-holder No. 22. ⁋2 A Traveller..who had..lost his Hunting-Seat.
1740 T. Gray Let. 2 Apr. in Corr. (1971) I. 145 A house built by one of the Grand Dukes for a hunting-seat.
hunting-shirt n. U.S. ‘a blowse or shirt originally made of deerskin and highly ornamented, worn by trappers, hunters and travellers on the Western frontier’ (Bartlett Dict. Americanisms).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > of specific material
hair-shirt1737
hunting-shirt1775
hickory shirt1825
narp1839
regatta shirt1840
boiled shirt1853
shirt1867
undergo1876
Oxford shirt1881
mackinaw shirt1916
Oxford1927
Aertex shirt1937
1775 J. Trumbull in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 32 I have ordered our Commissaries..to send to your camp all the hunting-shirts they can procure.
c1805 J. J. Henry Campaign against Quebec (1812) 15 A deep ash-colored hunting-shirt.
1845 in C. Cist Cincinnati Misc. 191 The Hunting Shirt, the emblem of the Revolution, is banished from the national military.
1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) IV. xv. 419 The hardy backwoodsman, clad in a hunting-shirt and deerskin leggins.
hunting-shirted adj. wearing a hunting-shirt.
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1835 Knickerbocker Mag. 1 310 Hunting-shirted soldiers.
hunting-song n. a song sung during a hunt, or relating to hunting, usually characterized by melodic phrases imitating the sound of a hunting-horn; also applied to an instrumental composition of the same character.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > other types of song
roundelaya1475
black sanctus?1533
pastorella1597
orgial1610
balow1613
comic song1718
hunting-song1727
vaudeville1739
apopemptic1753
melologue1820
Orphic1855
wren song1855
air de cour1878
Kunstlied1880
action song1883
come-all-you1887
marching song1894
party song1911
theme song1929
honky-tonker1950
protest song1953
sing-along1959
slow jam1961
talking blues1969
rap1979
1727 W. Somerville Occas. Poems (1790) I. 254 Hunting-song.
1873 R. E. Egerton-Warburton Hunting Songs (new ed.) Introd. p. ix Not..an inappropriate introduction to a new edition of these Hunting Songs.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > tail > types of
broom1600
broom-tail1684
hunting tail1686
rat-tail1705
whip tail1709
flagtail1852
bang-tail1870
1686 London Gaz. No. 2163/4 A brown bay Mare..with a Hunting-Tail.
hunting tartan n. (see quot. 1959); so hunting Stewart tartan, etc.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > chequered pattern > [noun] > tartan > specific
Rob Roy1823
hunting tartan1855
Glenurquhart1923
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > tartan > types of
Royal Stewart1822
Victoria tartan1851
hunting tartan1855
1855 A. Stanley Let. 8 Sept. (1927) iii. 74 The carpets are Royal Stewart Tartan and green Hunting Stewart [tartan].
1864 Queen Victoria Let. 26 Mar. in Dearest Mama (1968) 312 What is Anna's dress made of? I am going to send her a Hunting Stewart velvet.
1871 Monthly Packet Oct. 396 Their new winter frocks of Hunting Stewart tartan.
1959 R. Bain & M. O. MacDougall Clans & Tartans (ed. 4) 28 Hunting tartans are worn for sport and outdoor activities. Brown or some other dark hue is the predominant colour. When a Clan possessed a brightly coloured tartan it was unsuitable for hunting purposes, and hunting setts [patterns] were devised to make the wearer less conspicuous. The colours were arranged so that, when concealed in the heather, the tartan blended with the surroundings.
1969 O. Hesky Sequin Syndicate x. 102 A kimono in the colours of the Royal Stuart hunting tartan.
hunting-watch n. a watch having a hunting-case to protect the glass.
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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
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xiii. 167 A gold hunting-watch..capped and jewelled in four holes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
huntingadj.
That hunts: see the verb. (In quot. a1340 absol. as n. )
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the world > food and drink > hunting > [adjective]
huntinga1340
sportly1600
venerial1612
venatic1656
cynegetic1716
venatorial1830
venatory1837
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [adjective]
huntinga1340
Nimrodian1631
venatious1660
venaticala1666
sporting1679
gameful1704
Nimrodical1796
Nimrodic1816
venatory1837
theriomaniac1845
gamey1848
venatoriala1881
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxxiii. 6 Fra þe snare of huntand.
1682 T. Amy Carolina 21 One hunting Indian.
1859 J. S. Rarey Art of taming Horses (new ed.) viii. 134 Hunting farmers and hunting country surgeons.
1859 J. S. Rarey Art of taming Horses (new ed.) ix. 148 The ‘Napoleons’ of hunting ladies.
1887 R. Abbay White Mare Whitestonecliff 173 The huntingest squire In the huntingest shire.
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(Often hyphenated).
hunting-ant n. (see quot.).
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1871 C. Kingsley At Last (1892) xi. 224 One of us was stung..by a great hunting-ant.
hunting-cog n. (see cog n.2 1).
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1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 352 It is a useful precaution..to give the wheel what is called a hunting-cog; that is, one cog more than what will answer to an exact division of the wheel by the trundle. This being done, every cog..will take the next staff or round behind the one which it took in the former revolution.
hunting-man n. a man addicted to hunting.
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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
1859 J. S. Rarey Art of taming Horses (new ed.) i. 21 Almost every distinguished horseman and hunting-man in the three kingdoms.
1885 New Bk. Sports 1 As well as a hunting-man knows his country.
hunting spider n. a spider that hunts its prey instead of lying in wait for it.
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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
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 199 Not unlike a hunting Spider.
1925 R. W. G. Hingston in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 287 Beetles and hunting-spiders found a shelter on it [sc. a moraine].
1941 W. S. Bristowe Comity of Spiders II. v. 230 Some of these hunting spiders seek their prey by day and others by night.
1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xiv. 233 On the farm we know most of the diurnal species as jagspinnekoppe or hunting spiders.
hunting wasp n. a wasp that preys upon other insects.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > that preys on other insects
hunting wasp1916
1916 A. Teixeira de Mattos tr. J. H. Fabre (title) The hunting wasp.
1928 R. W. G. Hingston Probl. Instinct 100 Hunting wasps..sting their victims with surgical precision.
1948 ‘J. Crompton’ Hunting Wasp i. 17 A large number of the hunting wasps sing at their work.
1964 V. B. Wigglesworth Life of Insects xiii. 227 The hunting wasp Philanthus stocks its solitary nest solely with honey-bees.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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