still-huntv.
U.S.
1. transitive. To hunt in a stealthy manner; to stalk.
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1877 C. Hallock Sportsman's Gazetteer 81 The best time to still-hunt deer is just before sunset, when they come down from the hills to drink.
1885 T. Roosevelt Hunting Trips 327 The only way to get one [a grizzly] is to put on moccasins and still-hunt it in its own haunts.
2. intransitive. To hunt for game in a stealthy manner.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > stalking
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stalking1503–4
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still-hunt1858
sneak-hunting1878
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (intransitive)] > stalk
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1858 Harper's Mag. Oct. 615/2 An old woodsman..had been, without success, still-hunting.
1863 E. H. Walshe Cedar Creek 107 You see I'm often away trapping or still-hunting.
1881 Scribner's Monthly 22 859/1 On rainy days, we go out from camp, singly, and ‘still-hunt’ for deer.
1894 Outing 24 261/1 I was not still-hunting, though I made but slight disturbance.
1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 149 Once, still-hunting with Walter Ewell's rifle, he saw it [sc. a bear] cross a long corridor of down timber where a tornado had passed.
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