hunting : Idioms & Phrases

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Happy hunting grounds

  • the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Tylor.
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Hunting box

  • . Same As Hunting lodge (below).
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Hunting cat

  • (Zoöl.), the cheetah.
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Hunting cog

  • (Mach.), a tooth in the larger of two geared wheels which makes its number of teeth prime to the number in the smaller wheel, thus preventing the frequent meeting of the same pairs of teeth.
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Hunting dog

  • noun a dog used in hunting game
WordNet
  • (Zoöl.), the hyena dog.
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Hunting ground

  • noun a place where opportunities abound
  • noun an area in which game is hunted
WordNet
  • a region or district abounding in game; esp. (pl.), the regions roamed over by the North American Indians in search of game.
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Hunting horn

  • a bulge; a horn used in the chase. See Horn, and Bulge.
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Hunting leopard

  • (Zoöl.), the cheetah.
  • . See Cheetah.
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Hunting lodge

  • noun a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
    lodge.
WordNet
  • a temporary residence for the purpose of hunting.
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Hunting seat

  • a hunting lodge. Gray.
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Hunting shirt

  • a coarse shirt for hunting, often of leather.
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Hunting spider

  • noun ground spider that hunts its prey instead of using a web
    wolf spider.
WordNet
  • (Zoöl.), a spider which hunts its prey, instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider.
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Hunting watch

  • noun a watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal
    hunter.
WordNet
  • . See Hunter, 6.
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