hunt club
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5.0
- noun
- /hʌnt klʌb/
- US
:
club de caza
- Two more attempts to initiate the hunt in November were frustrated by similar mob gatherings, so that by December the hunt club members saw no option but to go out of business and advertise the hunt's hounds and horses for sale (The Irish Times, 12/13/07).
I will have to be in a hunting club or go through a lot of fucking bureaucracy to actually get approved for a permit to carry.
- I will have to be in a hunting club or go through a lot of fucking bureaucracy to actually get approved for a permit to carry.
Examples
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I belong to a hunt club in PA, and I have hunted with Brittanys, English Setters, and Llewellin Setters, etc.
Blog text (5) -
Abigail Hathaway looked like she was heading out to lunch at the hunt club.
Fiction book (2002) -
When he was alone deep on his side of the swamp, he could shoot at anything he wanted to, including the deer chased by the dogs of the hunt club.
Fiction book (1992) -
Once, when Humphrey was on the far side of the swamp hunting rabbits, he watched from behind the reeds as one of the hunt club men shot a fawn over and over with an automatic rifle as it tried to swim across a beaver pond.
Fiction book (1992) -
Nowadays, the old plantations had fallen into subdivision, and the descendants of plantation owners, like Hank, had to be content with what is called a "country place," maybe fifty acres on the waterway or a rice-field hunt club in the Santee Delta.
Fiction book (1991) -
Every Saturday, members of the local hunt club gather to enjoy a day of hunting in the woods.
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After joining a hunt club, he made many friends who shared his passion for hunting.
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The hunt club organizes community events to promote responsible hunting practices among its members.
Synonyms
41
4.2
A group of people who chase animals together, often with dogs
How Organized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an association of people who hunt' is directly and compositionally derived from 'hunt' (the activity/group) + 'club' (an association for activities). This noun+noun compounding pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Hunt club is a simple compound name for a club of people who hunt together; picture a small group meeting in the countryside to hunt animals. So, it means 'a group of people who hunt for sport'.