fox hunting
noun
a sport in which mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox.
fox hunter
-
a word derived from
fox hunting.
fox-hunter
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a word derived from
fox-hunting.
fox huntingnouna sport in which mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox.
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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
Not until a fire was crackling in the sheet-iron stove in the cabin, and Nepeese was busily engaged getting supper, did he voice these questions to the fox hunter.
From Baree, Son of Kazan by James Oliver Curwood
The formal inquiry, in tone passive and denying, throws the fox-hunter as upon his haunches.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
I would as willingly credit a fox-hunter if he told me he hunted on account of the beauty of midland landscapes in thaw-time.
From A Tramp's Notebook by Morley Roberts
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 Eden Phillpots
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
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 W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold
