Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hunting \Hunt"ing\, n.
The pursuit of game or of wild animals.
--A. Smith.
Happy hunting grounds, the region to which, according to
the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and
hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and
feasting.
--Tylor.
Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge (below).
Hunting cat (Zo["o]l.), the cheetah.
Hunting cog (Mach.), a tooth in the larger of two geared wheels which makes its number of teeth prime to the number in the smaller wheel, thus preventing the frequent meeting of the same pairs of teeth.
Hunting dog (Zo["o]l.), the hyena dog.
Hunting ground, a region or district abounding in game; esp. (pl.), the regions roamed over by the North American Indians in search of game.
Hunting horn, a bulge; a horn used in the chase. See Horn, and Bulge.
Hunting leopard (Zo["o]l.), the cheetah.
Hunting lodge, a temporary residence for the purpose of hunting.
Hunting seat, a hunting lodge.
--Gray.
Hunting shirt, a coarse shirt for hunting, often of leather.
Hunting spider (Zo["o]l.), a spider which hunts its prey, instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider.
Hunting watch. See Hunter, 6.
WordNet
n. a place where opportunities abound
an area in which game is hunted
Wikipedia
Hunting Ground is a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the Angel television series.
Hunting Ground may refer to:
- The Hunting Ground, a 2015 documentary about sexual assault on college campuses
- Hunting Ground (comics), a 2001 Dark Horse Comics anthology
- Hunting Grounds, an Australian punk band
- "Hunting Ground", an episode of the U.S. television show CSI: Miami
Usage examples of "hunting ground".
He was more than willing to share his hunting ground with us, and made no attempt to harm us or scare us off.
The cougar roams over long distances, and often changes its hunting ground, perhaps remaining in one place two or three months, until the game is exhausted, and then shifting to another.
Claws were sharpened on a favorite rock which also marked the boundary of Bojor's own hunting ground.
There is no way to escape the doing of our world, so what a warrior does is to turn his world into his hunting ground.
More often than not they choose the steppes as their hunting ground , and she didn't dare try to hunt the open plains with no cover.
What great good did he say would come of restoring an immense predator that regards the entire world as its hunting ground?
They know of this land of forests now-a rich, untamed hunting ground, with only a few elves to defend it.
Those plans had been somewhat sidetracked two decades ago when the Pahkwa-thanh had joined the Federation and a whole new hunting ground of alien diseases had been opened to him, daring him to chase them down and wrestle them into submission.
Perhaps these Demons are scouts, but among us how is the move to a new hunting ground made?
Now the tower had been removed well beyond the laraken's hunting ground, and no new magic flowed to the waiting scepter and wand.
For the present I was enjoying myself hugely, and I recalled that the Persian word, paradise, originally meant a hunting ground.