hunter

Plural

hunters

1. 1.One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.

2. 2.A dog used in hunting; a hunting dog.

3. 3.A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.

   • Henry, laughing, spurs away his hunter under the dripping trees.
   • ‘His favourite Hunter who was turned out in the park on his going abroad, somehow or other fell ill […] .’
   • No one, however, thought of the haughty and secluded young gentleman who […] when he rode on his black hunter into Dublin, avoided the village, and took the high-road by Inchicore.

4. 4.One who hunts or seeks after anything.

   • You know right well, how meek soe'er he seem, / No keener hunter after glory breathes.
   • Offmunson he's called, and a bright young pedigree-hunter has traced his descent from Offa, King of Mercia.
   • The hunter becomes the hunted.

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