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huntsman|ˈhʌntsmən|
[f. hunt's genitive of hunt n. + -man. Cf. craftsman.]
1. A man who hunts, a hunter.
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 49 The one which the Huntesman vseth. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 145 Goe bid the huntsmen wake them with their hornes. 1666J. Davies Hist. Caribby Isls 32 The Indians and Huntsmen, who have no setled habitation. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 570 The dext'rous Huntsman wounds not these afar, With Shafts. 1796Scott Wild Huntsman vii, He waved his huntsman's cap on high.
fig.1808Scott Hunting Song iv, Time, stern huntsman! who can baulk?
2. spec.
a. The manager of a hunt; a man whose business is to take charge of the hounds and direct the pursuit of game; esp. the man in charge of a pack of hounds for fox-hunting.
1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. i. Induct. i. 16 Huntsman I charge thee, tender wel my hounds. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 700 Now if it fall out that the hunts-man haue not earth dogs readie taught, hee may traine them in this manner. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 274 Just as a huntsman casts off his hounds. 1735Somerville Chase ii. 111 Huntsman, lead on! behind, the clust'ring Pack Submiss attend. 1812Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 133 Dick Knight, the late crack huntsman of Lord Spencer. 1883R. E. Egerton-Warburton Hunt. Songs (ed. 7) 230 note, Joe Maiden was Huntsman to the Cheshire Hounds.
b. (See quot.)
1810Ann. Reg. 620 Each gang of slaves [in Honduras] has one belonging to it, who is styled the huntsman..His chief occupation is to search the woods..to find employment for the whole.
3. Comb., as huntsmanlike adj.; also huntsman's cup, Sarracenia purpurea, and huntsman's horn, S. flava, North American plants so called from their pitcher-shaped leaves; the latter also applied to the leaves themselves (Miller Plant-n.); huntsman spider, a spider of the family Sparassidæ, which is widely distributed in warm regions.
1848A. Gray Man. Bot. 25 S[arracenia] purpurea, L. (Sidesaddle-flower. Huntsman's Cup.) 1864E. W. Paige Catal. Flowering Plants Schenectady County 7 Sarracenia Purpurea. Common Huntsman's Horn. 1865Dublin Univ. Mag. II. 20 At every fence the leading pair pop over in huntsmanlike fashion. 1936K. C. McKeown Spider Wonders Austral. v. 79 The Huntsman Spiders, or, as they are more popularly known, Triantelopes, do not seem to fear man. 1945C. H. Curran Insects of Pacific World xi. 293 The huntsman-spiders of the tropics include as one of their best known members the domestic Heteropoda venatoria. 1954C. J. Hylander Macmillan Wild Flower Bk. 149 Common Pitcher-plant. Sarracenia purpurea. This species is also known in various parts of its range as Sidesaddle Flower and Huntsman's Cup. Ibid., Trumpets. Sarracenia flava. The tubular insect-catching leaves of this species are longer and more slender, looking more like horns than pitchers. (In fact, another common name is Huntsman's Horn.) 1967Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 9 Apr. 2/5 There was the Huntsman spider who adopted us and took up residence behind a painting in the living-room. |