foxhunt

English

Etymology

From fox +‎ hunt.

Noun

foxhunt (plural foxhunts)

1. A hunt for foxes, usually with dogs.
   • 1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 662:

     It had been intended originally to electrify to Ponteland, but opposition from a local foxhunt in those early days of the century caused the proposal to be abandoned, […] .

2. A hunt for radio transmitters; radiosport.

   Synonym: bunny hunt

Translations

a hunt for foxes

Dutch: vossenjacht (nl) f Esperanto: vulpoĉasado Estonian: rebasejaht Finnish: ketunmetsästys French: chasse au renard (fr) f German: Fuchsjagd (de) f Portuguese: caça à raposa f Swedish: rävjakt (sv) c

a hunt for radios

Verb

foxhunt (third-person singular simple present foxhunts, present participle foxhunting, simple past and past participle foxhunted)

1. (intransitive) To hunt foxes, usually with dogs.
   • 2009 January 30, David Weston, “The Right Rev Ian Harland”, in The Guardian‎:

     He kept a small flock of sheep at Rose Castle, the palace of the bishops of Carlisle, and enjoyed the mild notoriety he accrued through his support for foxhunting in the House of Lords.

Related terms

• foxhunter
• fox hunting

Translations

to hunt foxes

See also

• foxhunt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia