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Definition of Deerstalker
1. Noun. A tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters.
Definition of Deerstalker
1. n. One who practices deerstalking.
2. n. A close- fitting hat, with a low crown, such as is worn in deerstalking; also, any stiff, round hat.
Definition of Deerstalker
1. Noun. One who takes part in deer stalking. ¹
2. Noun. (alternative form of deerstalker hat) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deerstalker
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deerstalker
Literary usage of Deerstalker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"81), 121": " Putting on a shooting-coat and deerstalker hat to ... 22, 1888,
1366: " A tall, languid person, in a deerstalker and an ulster" ; Punch, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Henry Charles Howard Suffolk, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo (1897)
"First, then, comes the rifle, and undoubtedly the single-barrel small bore of
the present day is ousting from its pride of place the deerstalker's old ..."
3. The United Service (1897)
"As we have already implied, rifle-shooting previous to the volunteer movement
had been the pursuit exclusively of the deerstalker and of a few enthusiasts ..."
4. The Art of Deer-stalking: Illustrated by a Narrative of a Few Days' Sport in by William Scrope, Charles Landseer, Edwin Henry Landseer (1897)
"Were I called upon offhand to name a few individuals particularly tortured by
famine, why then I should say Franklin, Richardson, Ross, and the deerstalker, ..."
5. The Wise Women of Inverness: A Tale, and Other Miscellanies by William Black (1893)
"... I RHYMES BY A deerstalker, (Reprinted chiefly from (lie Norel entitled " White
Heather. ... deerstalker ..."
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