half-hunter

British  

noun

1. a watch with a hinged lid in which a small circular opening or crystal allows the approximate time to be read See hunter

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Example Sentences

My father had a half-hunter gold watch and a chain of twisted leather which he wore as long as I can remember.

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He had also taken out a presentation gold half-hunter, suitably inscribed in memory of one of his more bloodless victories.

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Making his way through the woods was a young man, dressed in half-hunter costume, and carrying a rifle in his hand.

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He was dressed in a half-Indian, half-hunter's garb, a long-barrelled rifle was slanted over his shoulder, and he seemed a favorable specimen of the "half-horse, half-alligator" type of the early West.

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Redwood rode a strong horse of the half-hunter breed, while the “wolf-killer” was mounted upon one of the scraggiest looking quadrupeds it would be possible to imagine—an old mare “mustang.”

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