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n. - Someone who pursues and kills or captures wild animals regarded as a sport; Someone who finds and kills or captures animals for food or pelts.

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  • She called a huntsman, and said, “Take the child away into the forest; I will no longer have her in my sight.
  • Beausire, seeing two strangers, called the huntsman, and asked who they were.
  • And I should also conceive that the art of the huntsman is the art of attending to dogs?
  • But this would have been calling the huntsman and hounds into the garden to kill the hare.
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