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单词 still-hunter
释义

still-huntern.

Etymology: Formed as still-hunt v.: see -er suffix1.
U.S.
One who hunts game in a quiet or stealthy manner; a stalker.
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1831 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. I. 335 We shall therefore suppose that we are now about to follow the true hunter, as the Still Hunter is also called.
1895 Outing 26 64/2 He hated that weapon with all the unreasonable pertinacity of the old school of still-hunters.
1904 T. S. Van Dyke (title) The Still-hunter.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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