Like a dog, hehunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, / Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall.
1981,Field & Stream, volume86, number 5, page107:
Either the bird will be downgraded to "threatened" status — which means it can behunted — or it will be declared a nonspecies, as has already happened to all its taxonomic kissing cousins.
2010,Backyard deer hunting: converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound,→ISBN, page10:
(ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
The little girl washunting for shells on the beach.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I washunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
2004, Prill Boyle,Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-Blooming Women,→ISBN, page119:
My idea of retirement was to hunt seashells, play golf, and do a lot of walking.
What kind of woman came to an island and stayed there through a violent storm and then got up the next morning tohunt seashells? She had fine, delicate features with high cheekbones and the greenest eyes he'd ever seen.
(transitive) To drive; to chase; withdown,from,away, etc.
tohunt down a criminal
He washunted from the parish.
(transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
Hehunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country.
The spelling has been modernized.
(transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
Hehunts the woods, or the country.
(bell-ringing,transitive) To move or shift the order of (abell) in a regular course ofchanges.
(bell-ringing,intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
(engineering,intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forcedoscillation, as agovernor 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, etc.; also, toseesaw, as a pair ofalternators working in parallel.
1995, Bernard Wilkie,Special Effects in Television, page174:
[…] after which the inertia of the camera causes the motor tohunt with fluctuating speed.
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1981,William Irwin Thompson,The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page134:
Through male bonding, the subculture of thehunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people's wealth.
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Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013)Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.
“hunt” inMartalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974)Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “HUNT stm.”, inMittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “HUNT stn.”, inMittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
