hunter 
hunter (hunt′ər)
noun
- a person who hunts
- a dog trained for hunting
- a horse trained to carry a rider over open country, as in fox hunting
- a watch with a hunting case
Etymology: ME huntere
hunter
n.
A person who hunts
huntsman, stalker, chaser, sportsman, pursuer, ferreter, big-game hunter, hawker, falconer, beater, gunner, poacher, nimrod, pigsticker, horsewoman, huntress, horseman, archer, deerstalker, pursuant, equestrian, fisher, angler, equestrienne, piscator, fisherman, piscatorian, piscatorialist, toxophile, Waltonian, toxophilite, toxophilist, bowman, shooter; see also trapper.A dog or horse bred for hunting
hunting dog, gun dog, hound, hound dog, courser, foxhound, rabbit hound, chaser, steed, equine, garran, stalking horse, hunting horse, mount; see also animal 1, dog 1, horse 1.Hunting dogs include: pointer, setter, boarhound, Great Dane, retriever, spaniel, bloodhound, whippet, borzoi, saluki, terrier, foxhound, wolfhound, Rhodesian ridgeback, beagle.
Converse of subject
- shoot: The last one to be seen alive anywhere in the world was shot by a hunter in Morocco in 1920.
Converse of object
- hunt: When they are hunting divers hunters usually rely on large numbers of decoys to attract the ducks.
Adjective modifier
- big-game: In the Kruger, happily, big-game hunters are denied their kicks.
- intrepid: The gardens are renowned for their rare and unusual trees collected by intrepid plant hunters during the Eighteenth Century.
- fossil: Go on location with fossil hunters or uncover the awesome power of the T-Rex.
- mighty: How tenacious are the memories that cling round that mighty old hunter!
- nomadic: Elk, horse, reindeer and other animals lived in the forests and the nomadic hunters followed them.
- solitary: While scalloped hammerheads favor deeper waters and socialize in large schools, great hammerheads are solitary hunters that are equally comfortable at the surface.
Modifies a noun
- gatherer: Stone Age hunter gatherers in Britain Of the estimated 80 billion people who have ever lived on earth, over 90 % were hunter-gatherers.
- bridesmaid: Choosing to plan a backyard wedding and using hunter bridesmaid dresses is hard work.
- chase: In the case of fox hunting, the hunters chase to exhaustion any fox that the hounds come across.
- pony: To work with Top class show ponies and working hunter ponies on a private yard.
- livery: She usually has 15 hunter liveries, plus an extra 10 visiting in the spring.
- moon: No Directions to the hunters moon: leave the M23 at junction 10.
Noun used with modifier
- bounty: The bounty hunter starts to climb off the hood.
- domnick: In 1987 domnick hunter became the first UK based filter company to achieve ISO 9001 registration.
- vampire: I somehow doubt he would be a master vampire hunter without such a cool hat.
- bargain: This is the perfect time of year for bargain hunters, with the sales season in full swing.
- autograph: The circle of autograph hunters around us didn't distract him.
- ley: Despite any cavils this is a good popular introduction for newcomers who want to know about the history and current beliefs of ley hunters.
Freedom is only the distance between the hunter and his prey.
For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.
And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.
My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Awake! for Morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's turret in a noose of light.
Merry it is in the good greenwood, When the mavis and merle are singing, When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, And the hunter's horn is ringing.
No horse's cry was that, most like the roar Of some pained desert lion, who all day Hath trailed the hunter's javelin in his side, And comes at night to die upon the sand.
Man is the hunter; woman is his game: The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; They love us for it, and we ride them down.
He was a mighty hunter before the L: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the L.
Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, I can hear from the car-park the dance has begun. Oh! full Surrey twilight! importunate band! Oh! strongly adorable tennis-girl's hand!
This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game. Better bullets than yours would miss the white breast, Better mirrors than yours would crack in the flame.
Ye say, theyall have passed away, That noble race and brave, That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That 'mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters, Ye may not wash it out.
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each canbecomeaccomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing todayand another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening or criticize after dinner, just as I desire, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.
Browse dictionary entries near hunter
- ‹ hunted down
- ‹ hunted
- ‹ hunt's-up
- ‹ hunt group
- ‹ hunt-and-peck
- ‹ hunt
- ‹ Hunnish
- ‹ hunky-dory
- ‹ hunky
- ‹ hunks
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