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单词 hut-shooter
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hut-shooter
hut-shooter n. Obsolete (in France) a duck hunter who shoots from a hut or hide. [Apparently after French huttier (although this is first attested later in this sense: 1844 or earlier; 1788 or earlier denoting a person who lives in a hut; < hutte hut n.1 + -ier -ier suffix).]
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1824 P. Hawker Instr. Young Sportsmen (ed. 3) 388 The waters here are rented by different ‘huttiers’ (hut-shooters), who get the chief of their livelihood by supplying the markets of Paris, and other towns, with wildfowl.
1923 J. C. Phillips Nat. Hist. Ducks II. 156 It is a rare game-bird, taken only occasionally in the decoy-pipes, and by the hut-shooters of the French marshes.
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