hunting

Definition

The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc.

Etymology

From Middle English hunting, from Old English huntung, equivalent to hunt + -ing.

Example Sentences

• "His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth."
• "Bogie hunting is not caused by some sort of periodic disturbance but by dynamic instability; the oscillatory system is not the bogies alone but the complete assembly of bogie-plus-body; and variations in track rigidity do not affect the nature of the motion, only its intensity."