ˈfox-hunt
The chase of a fox with hounds.
| 1816 Sporting Mag. XLVII. 288 Next after a fox-hunt, the finest sight in England is a stage-coach just ready to start. 1875 W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 11 This is my first fox-hunt. |
So ˈfox-hunting vbl. n., the sport of hunting the fox; ˈfox-hunting ppl. a.; and (back-formation) ˈfox-hunt v. intr., also † to fox-hunt it. Also ˈfox-hunter, ˈfox-huntress, ˈfox-huntsman, one who hunts the fox.
| 1674 N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. i. (1677) 106 Fox-hunting is very pleasant. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables civ, The fox-hunters went their way. 1768 G. Washington Writ. (1889) II. 232 Rid up to Toulston in order to fox hunt it. 1772 Dk. Richmond in Burke's Corr. (1844) I. 393, I have engaged a large party..to come here..and stay a month to fox-hunt. 1827 Sporting Mag. XX. 93 No bad stem to graft a fox-huntsman on. 1829 Ibid. XXIV. 32 A female fox-huntress. 1830 N. S. Wheaton Jrnl. 59 A fox-hunting, horse-racing..people. 1837 Howitt Rur. Life i. iv. (1862) 31 Fox-hunting is now the chief amusement of the true British sportsman. 1852 R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour lvi. 318 Breaking their necks being, as she conceived, the inevitable end of fox-hunters. |