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.
Wiktionary
n. a spider that hunts its prey on the ground instead of catching it in a web
WordNet
n. ground spider that hunts its prey instead of using a web [syn: wolf spider]
Usage examples of "hunting spider".
Overhead, on a web that stretched across the street, a brown and black-striped hunting spider looked down curiously, probably wondering why good meat was being allowed to go to waste.
They were of fairly low intelligence, and might simply have been obeying the instinct that makes a hunting spider stalk its prey.
Were this little-known crawler as large as the common black hunting spider of our gardens and lawns, its bite would be almost invariably fatal.