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
-
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
Lord Halifax, a fox hunter and a gentleman, is aristocracy, and a good example of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
They saw the woodsman’s big prints, too, where he had been looking for the marks of the fox hunter.
From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Grace Brooks Hill
Lord Fairfax was a staunch fox-hunter, and kept horses and hounds in the English style.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
He was a good runner, a keen fox-hunter, and a bold and graceful rider.
From Thomas Jefferson by Henry Childs Merwin
To produce a finished fox-hunter, I would have him commence his studies in Devonshire, and finish his practice in Northamptonshire.
From A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by J. S. (John Solomon) Rarey
No fox-hunter ever prepared himself for the field by more substantial appliances.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
Addison takes care to show his Tory fox-hunter the famed Monument.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
