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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

hunt·er / ˈhən(t)ər/ • n. 1. a person or animal that hunts: a deer hunter. ∎ a person searching for something: a bargain hunter. ∎ a horse of a breed developed for stamina in fox hunting and ability to jump obstacles. ∎ (the Hunter) the constellation Orion. 2. a watch with a hinged cover protecting the glass.

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Hunter

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Hunter ♂ Especially North America: transferred use of the surname, in origin an occupational name. The term was used not only of hunters on horseback of game such as stags and wild boars, which was in the Middle Ages a pursuit restricted to the ranks of the nobility, but also of much humbler bird catchers and poachers seeking food.

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hunter

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

hunter hunter-gatherer a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting and fishing, and harvesting wild food. All humans probably lived in this way before the Neolithic period, but now only a few groups remain.
hunter's moon the first full moon after a harvest moon.

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hunter

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

hunter •exploiter, goitre (US goiter), loiter, reconnoitre (US reconnoiter), Reuter •anointer, appointer, jointer, pointer •cloister, hoister, oyster, roister •accoutre (US accouter), commuter, computer, disputer, hooter, looter, neuter, pewter, polluter, recruiter, refuter, rooter, saluter, scooter, shooter, souter, suitor, tooter, transmuter, tutor, uprooter •booster, rooster •doomster • freebooter • sharpshooter •peashooter • six-shooter •troubleshooter • prosecutor •persecutor • prostitutor •telecommuter •footer, putter •Gupta • Worcester • Münster •pussyfooter • executor •contributor, distributor •collocutor, interlocutor •abutter, aflutter, butter, Calcutta, clutter, constructor, cutter, flutter, gutter, mutter, nutter, scutter, shutter, splutter, sputter, strutter, stutter, utter •abductor, conductor, destructor, instructor, obstructor •insulter •Arunta, Bunter, chunter, Grantha, grunter, Gunter, hunter, junta, punter, shunter •corrupter, disrupter, interrupter •sculptor •adjuster, Augusta, bluster, buster, cluster, Custer, duster, fluster, lustre (US luster), muster, thruster, truster •huckster • Ulster • dumpster •funster, Munster, punster •funkster, youngster •gangbuster • filibuster • blockbuster •semiconductor • headhunter •woodcutter •lacklustre (US lackluster)

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