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单词 still-hunting
释义 I. still-hunting, vbl. n. U.S.
[f. still a. + hunting vbl. n.]
The practice of hunting game in a stealthy and noiseless manner.
1831Audubon Ornith. I. 335 Still Hunting is followed as a kind of trade by most of our frontier men.1847G. F. Ruxton Adv. Mexico xxxii. 301 There are two methods of hunting buffalo—one on horseback,..the other by ‘still hunting’, that is, ‘approaching,’ or stalking, by taking advantage of the wind and any cover the ground affords.1860Mayne Reid Hunters' Feast xxiii, The simplest and most common is that which is termed ‘still’ hunting.
II. still-hunting
see still n.1 4.
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