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gamekeeper

/geym-kee-per/US // ˈgeɪmˌki pər //UK // (ˈɡeɪmˌkiːpə) //

狩猎者,捕猎者,饲养员,猎户

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.

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Examples

  • The advent of firearms and the economic means for leisure time popularized bird hunting in England during the 1700s, so gamekeepers began breeding the birds.

  • Every gentleman of the legation had a gamekeeper specially assigned to him.

  • Our last hostess was the daughter of a gamekeeper; that was where we had some milk yesterday morning.

  • Nothin' but that ye throwed him in the Hoghole, and tried to kill him, and that ye killed the gamekeeper.

  • A few farmers, Mr. Stack's gamekeeper, and the landlady of the Imperial Hotel, made up the rest of the congregation.

  • But I must have done till a better opportunity; for the gamekeeper with his gun has just turned the corner.