单词 | meat hunter |
释义 | > as lemmasmeat hunter meat hunter n. (now chiefly U.S.) a person who hunts game for food or profit. ΚΠ 1887 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 298/2 That valley..used..to be a favorite resort of meat-hunters, when the first rush to the mines carried hundreds on to the head-waters of Clarke's Fork. 1907 J. R. Cook Border & Buffalo vi. 128 He thought the parties that had stolen the hides were meat-hunters from the edge of the settlement. 1985 M. W. Fox in M. W. Fox & L. D. Mickley Adv. Animal Welfare Sci. 1984 App. 187 Livestock producers, meat hunters and fishermen displayed an especially strong utilitarian orientation in contrast to members of humane, wildlife protection and environmental protection organizations. 2016 S. J. Bodio in K. Sharp Wild Spaces, Open Seasons Introd. 3 Hunters in the United States usually fall into one of three categories: utilitarian meat hunters, nature hunters, and sport hunters. < as lemmas |
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