| 单词 | pig hunting | 
| 释义 | pig huntingn.  The action or practice of hunting wild pigs; a wild pig hunt. Also attributive, as  pig-hunting expedition, etc.In quot. 1631 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > 			[noun]		 > pigs pig hunting1631 boar-hunting1770 pig-hunt1793 pig-sticking1833 boar-hunt1843 pig-stick1906 1631    B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre  iii. ii. 34 in  Wks. II  				These are Banbury-bloods, o' the sincere stud, come a pigge-hunting. ?1798    Catal. Prints John Barnard No. 281  				Pig-hunting, by Winstanley. 1837    G. Hempleman Piraki Log 		(1911)	 16 Nov. 60  				The Natives and one Man started a Pig hunting the remainder employed grass cutting. 1880    J. C. Crawford Recoll. Trav. N.Z. & Austral. 163  				Just below Puketapu we met a canoe laden with dogs going on a pig-hunting expedition. a1948    L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 		(1951)	 x. 262  				In 1878..one of the shepherds, took a pig-hunting contract. 1997    Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 38 250  				Colonial regulations handicapped pig hunting in several ways. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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