A person who looks after and manages hunting dogs. Also more widely: an attendant. Sometimes with prefixed defining word, as fox-fewterer, yeoman-few…
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释义 | the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > attendant on hounds (11) fewtererc1400 A person who looks after and manages hunting dogs. Also more widely: an attendant. Sometimes with prefixed defining word, as fox-fewterer, yeoman-few… bernera1425 An attendant in charge of a pack of hounds. hound's-swainc1475 a man in charge of hounds. brackener1490 A servant who attended to the hounds. piqueur1580 Esp. in France and French-speaking countries: an attendant who directs the hounds during a hunt; a master of hounds. dog boy1612 A boy in charge of dogs; a huntsman's assistant. vauterer1679 = fewterer, n. whipper-in1739 A huntsman's assistant who keeps the hounds from straying by driving them back with the whip into the main body of the pack. Also called shortly a… whipper1826 = whipper-in, n. 1 2 ? Obsolete. whip1848 Hunting. = whipper-in, n. 1. velterer1911 = fewterer, n. |
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