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Definition of Hunting

1. Noun. The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport.

2. Noun. The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone.

3. Noun. The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts.

Definition of Hunting

1. n. The pursuit of game or of wild animals.

Definition of Hunting

1. Noun. Chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food. ¹

2. Noun. Looking for something, especially for a job or flat. ¹

3. Noun. (engineering) Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing. ¹

4. Verb. (present participle of hunt) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hunting

1. an instance of searching [n -S]

Medical Definition of Hunting

1. The pursuit of game or of wild animals. Happy hunting grounds, the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge (below). Hunting cat, a spider which hunts its prey, instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider. Hunting watch. See Hunter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hunting

hunted person huntedly hunter hunter's chicken hunter's moon hunter's sauce hunter-gatherer hunter-gatherers hunter-gathering hunter green

hunter greens hunteress hunters huntest hunteth hunting (current term) hunting-crop hunting-crops hunting-horn hunting-horns

hunting and gathering society hunting and gathering tribe hunting and pecking hunting crop hunting dog hunting expedition hunting ground hunting guide hunting horn hunting horns

Literary usage of Hunting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sportby C. M. van Stockum by C. M. van Stockum (1914)
"East-Africa, big- game, 3151-52 hunting, Central-Africa, big-game, 3155-56 hunting, South-Africa, 103, 111-12 hunting, America, 2981 hunting of the auto, ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"Hawking, hunting, Fishing, with the True- Measures of Blowing ' (bl Printed by Edward Alide, 4to, 44 leaves). During the sixteenth century the 'Boke' was so ..."

3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"hunting—Continued Selecting the right delivery equipment. System Canada What a new system ... A. Stoddart. il Tibet hunting In an unknown land. WR Gilbert. ..."

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