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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
huntsman
noun
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▪ For the rest of the hunting season, the saboteurs will play a cat and mouse game with the huntsmen.
▪ He often had to pay the wages and expenses of the royal huntsmen out of the issues of his bailiwick.
▪ He suggested that the huntsmen should dismantle the gate to release the animal.
▪ Her former husband is Britain's most distinguished amateur huntsman and Master of the Duke of Beafort's foxhounds.
▪ The huntsman killed a wild boar and cut out its heart.
▪ The Antis - as the huntsmen call the Saboteurs - have been active for 10 years.
▪ The best amateur huntsman of his time.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Huntsman

Huntsman \Hunts"man\, n.; pl. Huntsmen.

  1. One who hunts, or who practices hunting.

  2. The person whose office it is to manage the chase or to look after the hounds.
    --L'Estrange.

    Huntsman's cup (Bot.), the sidesaddle flower, or common American pitcher plant ( Sarracenia purpurea).

Wiktionary
huntsman

n. 1 A hunter. 2 (context UK English) A fox hunter. 3 One who manages the hounds during a hunt. 4 Any of the many species of large spiders of the family Sparassidae.

WordNet
huntsman

n. someone who hunts game [syn: hunter]

Wikipedia
Huntsman

Huntsman may refer to:

  • Hunters who:
    • use guns/weapons for hunting
    • hunt with horses and dogs (e.g., fox hunting)
  • Huntsman is also used as a military designation for units traditionally raised from huntsmen, see Huntsmen (military)

Huntsman may also refer to:

Animals

  • Huntsman spider, a large spider commonly found in Australia

People:

  • Huntsman (surname)

In arts and entertainment:

  • Huntsman (American Dragon: Jake Long), a character on American Dragon: Jake Long
  • Huntsman (comics), X-Men villain
  • Huntsman ( Doctor Who), Wolf Weed Whipper in the Doctor Who serial "The Creature From the Pit", 1979
  • Huntsman (Marvel Comics), servant of Zeus
  • Huntsman (Heroic Publishing), a member of the League of Champions
  • Huntsman (Series), a young adult science fiction series written by Douglas Hill
  • The Huntsman (Freakazoid), a character on Freakazoid
  • Wild Huntsman (comics), a heroic character from DC Comics
  • The Huntsman, a short story by Anton Chekov (1884)
  • Huntsman (Snow White), a character from the Grimm fairy tale Snow White
    • Snow White & the Huntsman, a 2012 film
    • The Huntsman: Winter's War, a 2016 film
  • The Huntsman a fictional character from the ABC television series Once Upon a Time

In organizations:

  • Huntsman Corporation
  • Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business
  • Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, the School of Business at Utah State University
  • Huntsman, Savile Row Tailor, a Savile Row tailor

In places:

  • Huntsman (chemical plant), a major Australian chemical plant of the Huntsman Corporation
  • Huntsman Cancer Institute, world-class cancer research center named after Jon and Karen Huntsman on the University of Utah Campus
  • Huntsman, neighborhood in Springfield, Virginia
  • Jon M. Huntsman Center, the University of Utah's main sports arena, named after Jon M. Huntsman, Sr.
  • Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. Hall, main hall for the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

In sports:

  • The Huntsman, a racehorse who won the 1862 Grand National steeplechase run

In food:

  • Huntsman cheese, a combination of Double Gloucester and Stilton.
Huntsman (comics)

Huntsman, also known as Weapon XII, is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as an enemy of the X-Men. Huntsman first appeared in New X-Men #128 (August, 2002) and was created by Grant Morrison and Igor Kordey.

Huntsman (chemical plant)

Huntsman Chemical Company of Australia Pty Ltd (HCCA) operated a complex chemical manufacturing plant in Somerville Rd Brooklyn in Melbourne. The site is approximately 40 hectares in size and is located in the City of Brimbank. HCCA was partially owned by the Huntsman Corporation.

Huntsman (Marvel Comics)

The Huntsman is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as a tracker/hunter of the Olympian Gods for Zeus. Over the years he has appeared mainly as an enemy of Hercules.

Huntsman (Heroic Publishing)

Huntsman is the adopted crime fighting identity of Donald Hunter, and is a member of the League of Champions. He was originally based on a character named Marksman created by Bruce Harlick for the role-playing game Champions.

Huntsman (Snow White)

The Huntsman is a character in Snow White.

Huntsman (surname)

Huntsman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Abby Huntsman (born 1986), American television personality
  • Archibald Gowanlock Huntsman (1883-1973), Canadian scientist
  • Benjamin Huntsman, 18th-century English inventor
  • John A. Huntsman, decorated 19th-century American soldier
  • Jon Huntsman, Jr., former U.S. ambassador to China and former candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination
  • Jon Huntsman, Sr., philanthropist and Chairman of Huntsman Corporation
  • Mary Kaye Huntsman (born 1961), American activist
  • Peter R. Huntsman, Sr., CEO of Huntsman Corporation
  • Robert Huntsman (born 1955), American lawyer

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Usage examples of "huntsman".

Gorice the King among them with his austringers and falconers and his huntsmen with setters and spaniels and great fierce boar-hounds drawn in a string.

And great as is the hide of a yearling ox or stag, which huntsmen call a brocket, so great in extent was the fleece all golden above.

Fresh from his fastnesses Wholesome and spacious, The North Wind, the mad huntsman, Halloas on his white hounds Over the grey, roaring Reaches and ridges, The forest of ocean, The chace of the world.

Miss Fornis went out alone with me and four mentwo Subans and our own two Dari huntsmen.

Got turned around somehow after Doli and I began leading the Huntsmen a chase.

Clumsy, Trowneer, Phoebe, Colle, Gerland, Talbot, Luath, Luffra, Apollon, Orthros, Bran, Gelert, Bounce, Boy, Lion, Bungey, Toby, Diamond and Cavall were not pet dogs: they were the Forest Sauvage Hounds, no subscription, two days a week, huntsman the master.

The king had just appointed him chief huntsman, not so exalted an office as chamberlain, but a more lucrative one.

And away with thought and care, Save to live and be a man, While the keen air is blowing, And the huntsman holloing, And the black mare going As the black mare can.

And along the flanks of this cavalcade ran grooms and huntsmen in green and leather, their jagged liripipes flung about their necks, leading the leashed hounds.

Second Variation of the Ranz des Vaches On the heights peals the thunder, and trembles the bridge, The huntsman bounds on by the dizzying ridge.

Such was the promising state of my prospects when my evil genius brought to Madrid a native of Liege, Baron de Fraiture, chief huntsman of the principality, and a profligate, a gamester, and a cheat, like all those who proclaim their belief in his honesty nowadays.

He saw the huntsman struggling with outrunners, and the field, urged on by the slope, crowding on the line.

Furst, Rosselmann the Pastor, Petermann the Sacrist, Kuoni the Shepherd, Werni the Huntsman, Ruodi the Fisherman, and five other countrymen, thirty-three in all, advance and take their places round the fire.

They were deep in two extraordinary, unaccountable and lasting cases of remission in phthisis and tetraplegia when the chief huntsman came to say that Omar Pasha would now receive them.

Sometimes a wounded steer would charge the canoa, and spill the huntsmen in the water, where the alligators nipped them.