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gamekeeper

[ geym-kee-per ]

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noun

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.

gamekeeper

/ ˈɡeɪmˌkiːpə /

First recorded in 1660–70; game ¹ + keeper

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.

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