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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



12 words match “SPORTSMAN”

SPORTSMAN n.
One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.
SPORTSMANSHIP n.
The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.
CHARGE v.
To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.
FOWLER n.
A sportsman who pursues wild fowl, or takes or kills for food.
GAME a.
to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting. Game bag, a sportsman's bag for carrying small game captured; also, the whole quantity of game taken. -- Game bird, any bird commonly shot for food, esp. grouse, partridges, quails, pheasants, wild turkeys, and the shore or wading birds, suc…
MORT n.
A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game. The sportsman then sounded a treble mort. Sir W. Scott.
SHIKAREE; SHIKARI n.
A sportsman; esp., a native hunter. [India]
SOHO interj.
Ho; -- a word used in calling from a distant place; a sportsman's halloo. Shak.
SPORT n.
A sportsman; a gambler. [Slang] In sport, in jest; for play or diversion. "So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport" Prov. xxvi. 19.
SPORTER n.
One who sports; a sportsman. As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a frienship for him. Goldsmith.
WHISTLE n.
ce of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle. Might we but hear The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes, . . . Or whist…
WOODMAN n.
A sportsman; a hunter. [The duke] is a better woodman than thou takest him for. Shak.