small game

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noun

wild animals and birds hunted for sport, as rabbits or doves, that are smaller than animals, as deer and bears, classified as big game.

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Origin of small game

First recorded in 1810–20

Words nearby small game

Smallens, smaller European elm bark beetle, small forward, small frog in a big pond, small fry, small game, small goods, small holding, small hours, small intestine, smallish

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How to use small game in a sentence

Boys typically fish and hunt for small game such as rodents, birds, or lizards, while girls gather fruit and firewood, dig for roots, and carry water from nearby streams to camp.
What Industrial Societies Get Wrong About Childhood - Issue 108: Change|Karen L. Kramer|December 1, 2021|Nautilus
Neanderthals were top hunters who took on prey ranging from true mega-fauna like mammoths and woolly rhinos to small game.
Much of What We Thought About Neanderthals Was Wrong. Here’s Why That Matters|Rebecca Wragg Sykes|October 27, 2020|Time
He allowed his slaves to keep muskets to hunt for small game.
Washington Was Broke? Why Founding Fathers Were Strapped for Cash|Willard Sterne Randall|February 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Nothing would have induced a loyal citizen to admit that Fairbridge was too small game for such purposes.
The Butterfly House|Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Frequently the hunters came home empty-handed or bringing only small game.
Four American Indians|Edson L. Whitney
These Indians killed small game and deer with bows and arrows, and had coats or mantles of squirrel skins.
Stories of California|Ella M. Sexton
When there is no grand Assembly, there are particular Societies, where they sup, and play at small Game.
The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I|Karl Ludwig von Pllnitz
The Glacier National Park has an endless variety of small game, and in it numerous varieties of large animals are fairly abundant.
Your National Parks|Enos A. Mills

British Dictionary definitions for small game

small game

noun

British small animals that are hunted for sport

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