hunter
/ˈhʌntɚ/ noun A2- One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
- A dog used in hunting; a hunting dog.
- A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
- One who hunts or seeks after anything. · The hunter becomes the hunted.· a fortune hunter
- A person who bottles up their aggression and eventually releases it explosively.
- A kind of spider, the huntsman or hunting spider.
- A pocket watch with a spring-hinged circular metal cover that closes over the dial and crystal, protecting them from dust and scratches.
Plural hunters
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It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by strong ropes to the ground.
She turned her sound eye towards the land that she might get the earliest tidings of the approach of hunter or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from whence she entertained no anticipation of danger.
A DOE hard pressed by hunters sought refuge in a cave belonging to a Lion.
## The Hunter and the Woodman
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