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Hunting season   /hˈəntɪŋ sˈizən/   Listen
Hunting season

noun
1.
The season during which it is legal to kill a particular species.





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"Hunting season" Quotes from Famous Books



... sound of a horn,—the hunt was up; but this was not the hunting season. Looking out of the kiln door I saw a boy running at full speed down the lane with a small drain-pipe tucked under his arm. He stopped, put the pipe to his mouth, and blew a blast on this 'dread horn,' then jumped through a gap in the hedge and ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies
... Martin were very busy picking up the cleared ground, to sow the first crop. Mr. Campbell worked all day in the garden; the poultry were noisy and bustling, and soon furnished an abundant supply of eggs; and as now the hunting season was over for a time, Malachi and the Strawberry were continually coming ...
— The Settlers in Canada • Frederick Marryat
... compass and the road could not be far distant. He liked this place. He would build a tower here, a hundred-foot tower, of timbers, and here a man should be stationed all day—to watch for wisps of smoke during the hunting season. Smoke ... Tower ... In a moment ...
— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs


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