still-huntingn.

Etymology: < still adj. + hunting n.

U.S.

The practice of hunting game in a stealthy and noiseless manner.

ΘΚΠ

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

stalkc1450

stalking1503–4

still-hunting1831

still-hunt1858

sneak-hunting1878

1831 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. I. 335 Still Hunting is followed as a kind of trade by most of our frontier men.

1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. xxxii. 301 There are two methods of hunting buffalo—one on horseback,..the other by ‘still hunting’, that is, ‘approaching,’ or stalking, by taking advantage of the wind and any cover the ground affords.

1860 M. Reid Hunters' Feast (new ed.) xxiii The simplest and most common is that which is termed ‘still’ hunting.

1881 Harper's Mag. Oct. 690/2 That season of the year which intervenes between jack-hunting and still-hunting.

1923 J. H. Cook Fifty Years on Old Frontier 26 I found times that I could slip out of camp for a little still-hunting.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

still-hunting n. the search for illicit stills.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > searching for illicit stills

still-hunting1821

1821 W. Scott Let. 23 Apr. (1934) VI. 425 Pray write soon & give me the history of your Still-hunting.

1844 G. R. Gleig Light Dragoon (1855) ii. 17 There is not one [duty] on which I now look back with more unmixed abhorrence than the operation of still-hunting.

单词	still-hunting
释义	still-huntingn. Etymology: < still adj. + hunting n. U.S. The practice of hunting game in a stealthy and noiseless manner. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > stalking stalkc1450 stalking1503–4 still-hunting1831 still-hunt1858 sneak-hunting1878 1831 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. I. 335 Still Hunting is followed as a kind of trade by most of our frontier men. 1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. xxxii. 301 There are two methods of hunting buffalo—one on horseback,..the other by ‘still hunting’, that is, ‘approaching,’ or stalking, by taking advantage of the wind and any cover the ground affords. 1860 M. Reid Hunters' Feast (new ed.) xxiii The simplest and most common is that which is termed ‘still’ hunting. 1881 Harper's Mag. Oct. 690/2 That season of the year which intervenes between jack-hunting and still-hunting. 1923 J. H. Cook Fifty Years on Old Frontier 26 I found times that I could slip out of camp for a little still-hunting. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > as lemmas still-hunting still-hunting n. the search for illicit stills. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > searching for illicit stills still-hunting1821 1821 W. Scott Let. 23 Apr. (1934) VI. 425 Pray write soon & give me the history of your Still-hunting. 1844 G. R. Gleig Light Dragoon (1855) ii. 17 There is not one [duty] on which I now look back with more unmixed abhorrence than the operation of still-hunting. extracted from stilln.¹ < n.1831 as lemmas
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