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Definition of Hunting watch
1. Noun. A watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hunting Watch
Literary usage of Hunting watch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"A gold hunting watch, gold dome, »olid figures, »izo 1'7 iiii'hrs, ... A hunting
watch, winding and regulating by the ]X'n- dant, the winding part being ..."
2. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1884)
"Sportsmen who note the time of a run with hounds will be glad of a simple stop-watch
that can be set without trouble, and adapted to any hunting watch. ..."
3. The Pamphleteer by Abraham John Valpy (1818)
"The watch that Gilbert says I gave him, is not my property; what he has said is
false; the hunting watch, the one pound, and the seven shilling piece, ..."
4. A Basket of Chips by John Brougham (1855)
"A heavy double-cased gold hunting-watch ; Capped, too, and jewelled in some ...
Then there's the hunting-watch ; which, altogether, To make it even money we ..."
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