HUNTSMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does huntsman mean? 

• HUNTSMAN (noun)
  The noun HUNTSMAN has 1 sense:

1. someone who hunts game

  Familiarity information: HUNTSMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUNTSMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who hunts game

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hunter; huntsman

Hypernyms ("huntsman" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "huntsman"):

bounty hunter (a hunter who kills predatory wild animals in order to collect a bounty)

courser (a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey)

deer hunter (hunter of deer)

duck hunter (hunter of ducks)

falconer; hawker (a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry)

fowler (someone who hunts wild birds for food)

huntress (a woman hunter)

lion-hunter (someone who hunts lions)

pothunter (someone who hunts for food (not for sport))

snarer (someone who sets snares for birds or small animals)

stalker (someone who stalks game)

tracker (someone who tracks down game)

trapper (someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs))

Instance hyponyms:

Nimrod ((Old Testament) a famous hunter)

 Context examples 

So he summoned all the huntsmen together, and bade them go out into the forest with him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“It is used by their prickers and huntsmen when the beast hath not fled, but is still in its lair.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he stood with his pale, calm face and fine figure, I had never seen him to greater advantage, for he seemed, with all his elegance, to have a quiet air of domination amongst these fierce fellows, like a huntsman walking carelessly through a springing and yapping pack.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He told her of horses which he had bought for a trifle and sold for incredible sums; of racing matches, in which his judgment had infallibly foretold the winner; of shooting parties, in which he had killed more birds (though without having one good shot) than all his companions together; and described to her some famous day's sport, with the fox-hounds, in which his foresight and skill in directing the dogs had repaired the mistakes of the most experienced huntsman, and in which the boldness of his riding, though it had never endangered his own life for a moment, had been constantly leading others into difficulties, which he calmly concluded had broken the necks of many.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The riders would leap them over my hand, as I held it on the ground; and one of the emperor’s huntsmen, upon a large courser, took my foot, shoe and all; which was indeed a prodigious leap.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I knew not what wild beast we were about to hunt down in the dark jungle of criminal London, but I was well assured, from the bearing of this master huntsman, that the adventure was a most grave one—while the sardonic smile which occasionally broke through his ascetic gloom boded little good for the object of our quest.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he descended again, and went to his father, and caused himself to be announced as a strange huntsman, and asked if he could offer him service.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Ah, sir, you speak of dogs, cried Aylward; but there are a pack of lusty hounds who are ready for any quarry, if they have but a good huntsman to halloo them on.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then she asked if he required any huntsmen, and if he would take all of them into his service.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Two hundred deer and more came running inside the circle at once, and the huntsmen shot them.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)