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hunt's-up
[ huhnts-uhp ]
noun
- (formerly) a call played on a hunting horn in the morning to rouse and assemble the participants in a hunt.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hunt's-up1
1530–40; from phrase ( the ) hunt is up
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Example Sentences
If he hunts up my address on Madison Avenue, the hall boy will send him there.
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Nash, who had a vehement style; his "Hunts-up," a song which obtained him "much favor," was one of his most celebrated efforts.
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But when he saw that ox, he just opens the tin box and claps the creature inside and then hunts up Ossy.
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Juliet says of the lark's song, 'that voice doth us affray, Hunting thee hence with hunts-up to the day.'
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If not he gets out the little guide book he carries, and patiently hunts up the street or the building you want.
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