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Definition of Tufters
1. tufter [n] - See also: tufter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tufters
Literary usage of Tufters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hunting by Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset Beaufort, Mowbray Morris, Edward William Lewis Davis, Digby Collins, Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1886)
"The choice of tufters is important; for, upon their fitness for the work of
rousing and ... But tufters must be possessed of unusual quickness, handiness, ..."
2. Hunting by Henry Charles Fitz Roy Somerset Beaufort, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"But tufters must be possessed .of unusual quickness, handiness, and patience, or
delays fatal to sport will be occasioned. When the wrong animal—either a ..."
3. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches: A Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1904)
"This done, he calls out his tufters, some three couple or so, and trots off,
after the Master, to the place where the buck is reported to be lying. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"These hounds or " tufters " seldom exceed in number four couples ; that they ...
Then, with the deer fairly found by the tufters, hinds, or young deer, ..."
5. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1878)
"Sam still main- ' tains his creed that his tufters were not on the fox, ...
So the tufters are stopped again, and sent back on heel; and by- and-by that ..."
6. Fox-hound, Forest, and Prairie by Edward Pennell Elmhirst (1892)
"all—that the tufters do not often get away for the day, or the whole pack for
the night. What may have happened to the four deer and the three hounds for ..."
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