See Also: hunt(2)(dictionary)
hunt(1)(dictionary)
hunt(dictionary)
Hunt(medicine)
hunt's-up(dictionary)
hunt 1, verb(dictionary)
witch-hunt(dictionary)
Hunt Club(tourism)
treasure hunt(dictionary)
witch-hunt(1)(dictionary)

hunt(2) (iou)



hunt noun2. LME.
[from HUNT verb.]
The action or an act of hunting game for sport or food. LME.
b. A diligent or energetic search or pursuit. E17.
G. Gorer The papers..were much taken up with the hunt for the missing Coronation Stone. Medway Extra A twice-a-year hunt to recruit more staff.
c. Telephony. An automatic search for a free line. E20.
a. A body of people (sometimes including their horses and hounds) engaged in hunting wild animals or game, esp. foxes. Also, a body of people meeting regularly to hunt. L16.
G. M. Trevelyan Very few joined a Hunt who were not resident in the County.
b. Game pursued or killed in hunting. L16-E17.
c. The district over which a pack of hounds hunts. M19.
Field Every landowner within the hunt should be careful to preserve foxes.
In change-ringing: a movement of bells through a fixed succession of positions. Formerly, the first or treble bell in a set of bells. L17.
An oscillatory motion. E20.
Comb.: hunt ball a ball or dance given by members of a hunt; hunt saboteur a person whose intention is to disrupt a hunt in the interests of animal welfare.