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    hunt·ing
    [ˈhən(t)iNG]
    noun
    hunting (noun) · plain hunting (noun) · plain huntings (plural noun)
    1. the activity of hunting wild animals or game, especially for food or sport:
      "they talked about going hunting" · "whale hunting is unnecessary"
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    2. bell-ringing
      a simple system of changes in which bells move through the order in a regular progression.
    hunt
    [hənt]
    verb
    hunting (present participle)
    1. pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food:
      "in the autumn they hunted deer" · "they hunted and fished"
      • (of an animal) chase and kill (its prey):
        "mice are hunted by weasels and foxes" · "lionesses hunt in groups"
    2. search determinedly for someone or something:
      "he desperately hunted for a new job"
      Similar:
      look high and low
      scour around
      try to find
      cast around
      rummage (around)
      root around
      fish around
      forage around
      ferret (around)
      rootle about/around
    3. technical
      (of a device or system) oscillate around a desired speed, position, or state:
      "on weak stereo signals this circuit can hunt over mono and stereo in a very disconcerting manner"
      • (of an aircraft or rocket) oscillate around a mean flight path.
      • (of an automatic transmission in a motor vehicle) keep shifting between gears because of improperly designed shift logic.
    4. bell-ringing
      (hunt down/up)
      (in change-ringing) move the place of a bell in a simple progression.
    Origin
    Old English huntian, of Germanic origin. Sense 4 dates from the late 17th century, and is probably based on the idea of the bells pursuing one another; it gave rise to the sense ‘oscillate about a desired speed’ (late 19th century).
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