hare-findern.
A man whose business is to find or espy a hare in form.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 174 Or doe you play the flowting iacke, to tell vs Cupid is a good Hare-finder . View more context for this quotation
1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1668) i. vii. 43 The Hare-finder should give the Hare three sohows before he put her from her Lear.
1676 T. Shadwell Virtuoso iii. 51 Clar. You stare about like a Hare-finder: what's the matter? Longv. Faith, Madam, I expected to have met your Sister here.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 165 Rat-catcher, hare-finder, and broom-maker.
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