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Lady Chatterley's lover, for one
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gamekeeper
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Word definitions for gamekeeper in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
one who has responsibility for animals kept for sport, 1660s, from game (n.) in the "wild animal caught for sport" sense + keeper .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gamekeeper \Game"keep`er\ (g[=a]m"k[=e]p`[~e]r), n. One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. --Blackstone.
Usage examples of gamekeeper.
This friend was the gamekeeper, a fellow of a loose kind of disposition, and who was thought not to entertain much stricter notions concerning the difference of meum and tuum than the young gentleman himself.
The truth of which was as follows: The gamekeeper, about a year after he was dismissed from Mr.
Allworthy, it might probably have done the gamekeeper very little mischief.
However, as his friendship was to be tired out by no disappointments, he now determined to try another method of preserving the poor gamekeeper from ruin.
Old Sir Simon, he would give the gamekeeper his deputation the next morning.
You now plainly see whence all the seeming generosity of this young man to the family of the gamekeeper proceeded.
The gamekeeper having exerted as much diligence in quest of the lost goods, as if he had hoped to find them, desired Mr.
George, the gamekeeper, who is one of the servants whom the squire hath brought with him to town.
The gamekeeper turned and civilly touched his hat, which told me that news of my disgrace had not yet reached him.
But a gamekeeper took me for a vagrant and threatened to set his dogs on me.
And it happened, too, that he was the one person in all the world that Jock would most wish not to hear it, for he was gamekeeper to the Laird of Glen Cairn, and the Laird of Glen Cairn owned all the land for miles and miles about in every direction.
Climbing is hard work for a fat man, and the gamekeeper found himself covered with pitch before he had gone more than halfway up, but he puffed on in spite of difficulties and at last reached a point from which he could look directly across the surface of the rock, but from which the cave was entirely hidden behind a projection in the wall of the cliff.
The people were surprised that Angus himself should oppose this plan, but as he was gamekeeper and in authority, the matter was dropped.
Not only for the gamekeeper, either, for there had been other enemies.
Gates the gamekeeper whose radio had been stolen from his cottage the previous week.