2. Noun. Careless, profiteering archeology. ¹
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Definition of Pothunting
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pothunting
Literary usage of Pothunting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1881)
"... who has a sound mind and a sound body, is not jaded by premature training,
and not demoralised by pothunting after the endowments of school and college. ..."
2. Fraser's Magazine by Robert Louis Stevenson (1881)
"... who has a sound mind and a sound body, is not jaded by premature training,
and not demoralised by pothunting after the endowments of school and college. ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1881)
"... who has a sound mind and a sound body, is not jaded by premature training,
and not demoralised by pothunting after the endowments of school and college. ..."
4. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1896)
"... me in saying that the present system of playing for prizes, or rather pothunting,
will, unless modified and checked, slowly but surely ruin the game. ..."
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