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Definition of Fox hunter
1. Noun. A mounted hunter who follows the hounds in pursuit of a fox.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fox Hunter
Literary usage of Fox hunter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"DURING THE FROST A CERTAIN FOX-HUNTER INCREASES IN WEIGHT, AND GETS TOO BIG FOR
HIS CLOTHES. THE SPEECH FROM THE THRONE. As it may possibly, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1846)
"In the Highlands he is honoured with the title of ' The Fox-hunter ;' but the
Highland fox-hunter leads a different life, and heads a different ..."
3. The Fortnightly Review (1869)
"But as I do not hold that every modern fox-hunter is a brute, neither do I hold
that every Elizabethan courtier who attended a bear-bait or every Roman ..."
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