hunt
see also: Hunt
Etymology
Hunt
Pronunciation
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see also: Hunt
Etymology
From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian, from Proto-West Germanic *huntōn, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-.
In some areas read as a collective form of hound by folk etymology.
Pronunciation- IPA: /hʌnt/
hunt (hunts, present participle hunting; simple past and past participle hunted)
- (ambitransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
- State Wildlife Management areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt on public lands.
- Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Genesis 27:5–passageEsau went to the field to hunt for venison. ↗:
- 1835, Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC ↗, page 100 ↗:
- Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, / Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall.
- (ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
- The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.
- The police are hunting for evidence.
- c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i]:
- He after honour hunts, I after love.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗:
- I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
- (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
- to hunt down a criminal
- He was hunted from the parish.
- (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
- Did you hunt that pony last week?
- 1711 July 15 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, July 4, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 104; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC ↗:
- He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country.
- The spelling has been modernized.
- (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
- He hunts the woods, or the country.
- (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
- (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
- (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
- French: chasser
- German: jagen
- Italian: cacciare
- Portuguese: caçar, vear
- Russian: охо́титься
- Spanish: cazar
- French: chercher
- German: suchen
- Italian: cercare, essere a caccia, essere alla ricerca
- Portuguese: caçar, vear
- Russian: разы́скивать
- Spanish: buscar
hunt (plural hunts)
- The act of hunting.
- A hunting expedition.
- An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
- A pack of hunting dogs.
Hunt
Pronunciation
- IPA: /hʌnt/
- Surname for a hunter (for game, birds etc).
- (rare) A male given name.
- A placename
- An unincorporated community in Knox County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Kerr County, Texas.
- Former name of McFarland California.
- Ellipsis of Hunt County
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