fox hunter
- a word derived from fox hunting.
- a word derived from fox-hunting.
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A senior fox hunter has been found guilty of encouraging and assisting people to evade the ban on fox hunting.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2021
Roberts was a prominent member of the Oxford community: He enjoyed a reputation as a crack fox hunter, he played fiddle at local celebrations and he was white.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2018
An avid fox hunter, he showed up sporting jodhpurs and brandishing a quirt.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2015
Voters in Maryland's Democratic primary apathetically chose a wealthy china collector, Incumbent Senator George Radcliffe, over a wealthy fox hunter, National Committeeman Howard Bruce.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was an enthusiastic fox hunter also, but he never hunted on horseback.
From Far Off Things by Machen, Arthur
Ask an enthusiastic fox-hunter how much he would have given for such a sight?
From A Hungarian Nabob by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
Few now but the antiquary and holiday-maker wander to Siward's Cross; or the fox-hunter gallops past it; or the folk, when they tramp to the heights for purple harvest of "hurts" in summer-time.
From A West Country Pilgrimage by Phillpots, Eden
Still Tim held on in a way a practised fox-hunter could alone have done, hitting now on the monster’s jaws, now behind him, and now on its side.
From The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by Perat
It is odd, too, to see how this man thinks me a full-blooded fox-hunter, and tells me my philosophy would fail if I lost my health or had to give up exercise!
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
There were hedgerows as neat as those which separate our English fields; and here and there a fox-hunter would have observed with disgust that barbed wire fences had spread as far as Java.
From A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore by Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil)
