Crossword clues for gamekeeper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A person employed to maintain the game for hunting and all associated materials and effects. Often shortened to keeper#Noun.
WordNet
n. a person employed to take care of game and wildlife [syn: game warden]
Wikipedia
A gamekeeper (often abbreviated to keeper) is a person who manages an area of countryside to make sure there is enough game for shooting, or fish for angling, and who actively manages areas of woodland, moorland, waterway or farmland for the benefit of game birds, deer, fish and wildlife in general.
Typically, a gamekeeper is employed by a landowner, and often in the UK by a country estate, to prevent poaching, to rear and release game birds such as common pheasants and French partridge, eradicate pests, encourage and manage wild red grouse, and to control predators such as weasels, to manage habitats to suit game, and to monitor the health of the game.
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.