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seal-hunter

seal-hunter noun: one who hunts seals.

Noun

seal-hunter (plural seal-hunters)

  1. One who hunts seals.
    • ...who ekes out a living from fishing in the North Sea, or a nomadic tribesman, or an Inuit seal-hunter.2011, David Grumett, Rachel Muers, Eating and Believing
    • In this they both succeeded ; and the brother turned out to be an excellent seal-hunter besides.2014, Hinrich Rink, Robert Brown, Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo

Forms of seal-hunter

pluralseal-hunters
alternative formseal hunter
alternative formsealhunter

Questions about seal-hunter

What does seal-hunter mean?
Seal-hunter means one who hunts seals.
What part of speech is seal-hunter?
Seal-hunter is a noun.
What is the plural of seal-hunter?
The plural of seal-hunter is seal-hunters.

Words near seal-hunter in the dictionary

  1. seal the deal
  2. seal up
  3. seal'd
  4. seal-bird
  5. seal-birds
  6. seal-hunter
  7. seal-hunters
  8. seal-man
  9. seal-men
  10. seal-skin
  11. seal-skins

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