hunt

IPA: hˈʌnt

The act of hunting.
A hunting expedition.
An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
A pack of hunting dogs.
An English surname originating as an occupation for a hunter (for game, birds etc).
(rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
A placename
An unincorporated community in Knox County, Ohio, United States.
An unincorporated community in Kerr County, Texas, United States.
Former name of McFarland, California.
Ellipsis of Hunt County. [One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Greenville.]

(transitive, intransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
(transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
(transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
(transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
(transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
(bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
(bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
(engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

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