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What (who) is hunt - definition

SEARCHING, PURSUING, CATCHING AND KILLING WILD ANIMALS
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  • Dutch]] 19th-century painting featuring two dogs, a [[shotgun]] and a game bag
  • [[Inuit]] hunting [[walrus]], 1999
  • Right: [[.40 S&W]] round with [[hollow-point bullet]]

Left: Expanded bullet of the same calibre with exposed lead core
  • Duke of Hamilton's]] hunting lodge
  • A tiger hunt at Jhajjar, Rohtak District, Punjab, c. 1820
  • Cubist]] style of hunting by horseback in France
  • American [[bison]] being chased off a cliff as seen and painted by [[Alfred Jacob Miller]], c. 1860
  • [[Saharan rock art]] with prehistoric archers
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  • Tswana hunting the [[lion]], 1841
  • Master or whipper-in and fox hounds drawing a wood. Hunting in Yorkshire, northern England, in 2005, on the last day of fully legal, proper, fox hunting.
  • [[Red-legged partridge]]s on a game rack
  • Ancient Greek [[black-figure pottery]] depicting the return of a hunter and his dog; made in [[Athens]] c. 540 BC, found in [[Rhodes]]
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  • bow]] hunting in [[Botswana]].
  • live trap]]) for [[cheetah]]s on a farm in [[Namibia]]
  • dressed deer]] at Schoodic Lake, [[Maine]], in 1905
  • Mughal]] [[aristocrat]]s hunting a [[blackbuck]] alongside an [[Asiatic cheetah]], 1812
  • Plate depicting [[Khosrow I]] hunting animals
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  • Ancient Greek]] sculpture, c. 325 BC, by [[Leochares]]
  • [[Tapestry]] with a hunting scene, late 16th century
  • Goguryeo tomb mural]] of hunting, middle of the first millennium
  • [[Gustave Courbet]], ''[[The Kill – Deer Hunting in the Grand Jura Forests]]'', 1857
  • A man target practicing for the hunting seasons
  • A ''Shikar'' party in [[Mandalay]], [[Burma]], soon after the conclusion of the [[Third Anglo-Burmese War]] in 1886, when Burma was annexed to [[British India]]
  • Sharp [[flint]] piece from [[Bjerlev Hede]] in central Jutland. Dated around 12,500 BC and considered the oldest hunting tool from Denmark.
  • Ladies hunting in the 15th century
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  • [[Marshal's Cabin]], a former hunting lodge in [[Loppi]], Finland
  • [[Nobleman]] in hunting costume with his servant following the scent of a [[stag]], 14th century
  • Hunter on a tree or a ground stand during a driven hunt in [[Finland]]
  • ''Punishment of a Hunter'' (c. 1647) by [[Paulus Potter]]
  • red stag]] in [[Scotland]]
  • Hunter carrying a [[reindeer]] in [[Greenland]]
  • Explorer and big game hunter [[Samuel Baker]] chased by an elephant, illustration from 1890
  • Pahari artist]], 18th century)
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  • Riders gather for a [[dingo]] drive in [[Morven, Queensland]], 1936.
  • Low-relief the boar hunt, [[Taq-e Bostan]]
  • Trophy collection of the [[Princely Family of Liechtenstein]] at [[Úsov]] Château, the [[Czech Republic]]
  • Weeks Edwin's]] painting ''Departure for the Hunt'', c. 1885
  • browsing]] by [[ungulate]]s. Note the lack of natural forest regeneration outside the fencing.
  • A hunter and local guides with an [[elephant]] they shot, 1970

hunt         
I. v. a.
Chase, pursue.
II. v. n.
1.
Follow the chase.
2.
Search, seek, look.
III. n.
Chase, pursuit, hunting, field-sport.
hunt         
(hunts, hunting, hunted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you hunt for something or someone, you try to find them by searching carefully or thoroughly.
A forensic team was hunting for clues...
= search
VERB: V for n
Hunt is also a noun.
The couple had helped in the hunt for the toddlers.
= search
N-COUNT
2.
If you hunt a criminal or an enemy, you search for them in order to catch or harm them.
Detectives have been hunting him for seven months...
VERB: V n, also V for n
Hunt is also a noun.
Despite a nationwide hunt for the kidnap gang, not a trace of them was found.
N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N for n
3.
When people or animals hunt, they chase and kill wild animals for food or as a sport.
As a child I learned to hunt and fish...
He got up at four and set out on foot to hunt black grouse.
VERB: V, V n, also V for n
Hunt is also a noun.
He set off for a nineteen-day moose hunt in Nova Scotia.
N-COUNT: oft n N
4.
In Britain, when people hunt, they ride horses over fields with dogs called hounds and try to catch and kill foxes, as a sport.
She liked to hunt as often as she could.
VERB: V, also V n
Hunt is also a noun.
The hunt was held on land owned by the Duke of Marlborough.
N-COUNT
5.
In Britain, a hunt is a group of people who meet regularly to hunt foxes.
N-COUNT
6.
If a team or competitor is in the hunt for something, they still have a chance of winning it.
We're still in the hunt for the League title and we want to go all the way in the Cup.
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR for
7.
Hunt         
·noun A pack of hounds.
II. Hunt ·noun An association of huntsmen.
III. Hunt ·noun The game secured in the hunt.
IV. Hunt ·noun A district of country hunted over.
V. Hunt ·vt To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
VI. Hunt ·add. ·vi To shift up and down in order regularly.
VII. Hunt ·noun The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
VIII. Hunt ·vi To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
IX. Hunt ·vt To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
X. Hunt ·add. ·vt To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
XI. Hunt ·vi To Seek; to Pursue; to Search;
- with for or after.
XII. Hunt ·vt To Drive; to Chase;
- with down, from, away, ·etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
XIII. Hunt ·vt To search diligently after; to Seek; to Pursue; to Follow;
- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.
XIV. Hunt ·vt To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to Chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.
XV. Hunt ·add. ·vi To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

Wikipedia

Hunting

Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, or killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to exploit the animal's body for food (i.e. meat) and useful animal products (fur/hide, bone/tusks, horn/antler, etc.), for recreation/taxidermy (see trophy hunting), although it may also be done for non-exploitative reasons such as removing predators dangerous to humans or domestic animals (e.g. wolf hunting), to eliminate pests and nuisance animals that damage crops/livestock/poultry or spread diseases (see varminting), for trade/tourism (see safari), or for ecological conservation against overpopulation and invasive species.

Recreationally hunted species are generally referred to as the game, and are usually mammals and birds. A person participating in a hunt is a hunter or (less commonly) huntsman; a natural area used for hunting is called a game reserve; an experienced hunter who helps organize a hunt and/or manage the game reserve is known as a gamekeeper.

Many non-human animals also hunt (see predation) as part of their feeding and parental behaviors, sometimes in quantities exceeding immediate dietary needs. The one that does the hunting is the predator, and the one being hunted is the prey.

Hunting activities by humans arose in Homo erectus or earlier, in the order of millions of years ago. Hunting has become deeply embedded in various human cultures and was once an important part of the rural economies—classified by economists as part of primary production alongside forestry, agriculture and fishery. Modern regulations (see game law) distinguish lawful hunting activities from illegal poaching, which involves the unauthorized and unregulated killing, trapping or capture of animals.

Apart from food provision, hunting can be a means of population control. Hunting advocates state that regulated hunting can be a necessary component of modern wildlife management, for example to help maintain a healthy proportion of animal populations within an environment's ecological carrying capacity when natural checks such as natural predators are absent or insufficient, or to provide funding for breeding programs and maintenance of natural reserves and conservation parks. However, excessive hunting has also heavily contributed to the endangerment, extirpation and extinction of many animals. Some animal rights and anti-hunting activists regard hunting as a cruel, perverse and unnecessary blood sport. Certain hunting practices, such as canned hunts and ludicrously paid/bribed trophy tours (especially to poor countries), are considered unethical and exploitative even by some hunters.

Marine mammals such as whales and pinnipeds are also targets of hunting, both recreationally and commercially, often with heated controversies regarding the morality, ethics and legality of such practices. The pursuit, harvesting or catch and release of fish and aquatic cephalopods and crustaceans is called fishing, which however is widely accepted and not commonly categorised as a form of hunting, even though it essentially is. It is also not considered hunting to pursue animals without intent to kill them, as in wildlife photography, birdwatching, or scientific-research activities which involve tranquilizing or tagging of animals, although green hunting is still called so. The practices of netting or trapping insects and other arthropods for trophy collection, or the foraging or gathering of plants and mushrooms, are also not regarded as hunting.

Skillful tracking and acquisition of an elusive target has caused the word hunt to be used in the vernacular as a metaphor for searching and obtaining something, as in "treasure hunting", "bargain hunting", "hunting for votes" and even "hunting down" corruption and waste.

Examples of use of hunt
1. The rogue hunt could delay their application for a lawful permit to hunt whales.
2. Hunt secretary Robert Valance said the hunt would be watched closely by Thames Valley police and urged hunters to hunt within the law.
3. The result: Few kids learn to hunt and go on to hunt as adults.
4. High impact: Reading‘s Hunt Hunt crashes into Cech Look here too...
5. The other victims were Jordan Hunt, 23 months; his mother, Gina Hunt, 24; and Charlii‘s mother, Andrea Yarrell, 24.