Read full poem →Why, you know, an’ a man have not skill in the
hawking and hunting languages now-a-days, I’ll not
give a rush for him. They are more studied than the
Dictionary Entry
The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. huntinggrounds huntingground hunting
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Poetry examples for “hunting”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Roman candles at night, the young men and women
two by two hunting the bypaths and kissing bridges.
Read full poem →The phantom of an old hunting dog nosing in the under-
brush for muskrats, barking at a coon in a treetop
Read full poem →Of August 7th, as a hunter walks--
Looking for rabbits maybe, aimless hunting--
Over the meadow where the Illini's
Read full poem →So England conservative, England of Southey and Burke,
The fox-hunting squires, the England of Church and of State,
The England half mule and half ox, writes you down, O Voltaire:
Read full poem →Roaming the fields with Bert Kessler,
Hunting quail and snipe.
At Thompson’s Lake the trigger of my gun
Read full poem →ways moving from place to place, for he knew that
Sear was hunting for him, and that he would kill him
f he could catch him.
Read full poem →O NE day Coyote went out hunting buffalo. While
he was going through the timber, he found Tur-
Read full poem →and how they started. Some are stories about gods and
heroes. Some are stories of war, of hunting, or of other
real adventure. Some are just made-up stories that
Read full poem →Danger and shame and death betide me!
For Olaf the King is hunting me down
Through field and forest, through thorp and town!"