Hunting
The pursuit of game or of wild animals. Happy hunting grounds, the region to which, according to the belief of American indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Hunting box. Same as hunting lodge (below).
(Science: medicine) hunting cat, a spider which hunts its prey, instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider. Hunting watch. See hunter.
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