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1830 Times 18 May 3/2 A motion..for the purpose of so amending the orders of the House, as to put an end to ‘fictitious and gambling subscriptions by premium hunters’.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 8 June 8/1 A sign that many premium-hunters will be left out in the cold.

1980 Econ. Hist. Rev. 33 7 ‘Stags’ (premium hunters) were active in the early stages of French railway issues when they reached London in the mid-'forties.