Definition of Duck hunter

1. Noun. Hunter of ducks.

Generic synonyms: Hunter, Huntsman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Duck Hunter

duck-billed platypuses
duck-drownder
duck-egg blue
duck-egg blues
duck-footed
duck and cover
duck arsed
duck dive
duck dived
duck dives
duck diving
duck down
duck embryo origin vaccine
duck hepatitis virus
duck hunter (current term)
duck hunting
duck influenza virus
duck mole
duck moles
duck out
duck pate
duck plague
duck plague virus
duck sauce
duck shot
duck soup
duck soups
duck stamp
duck stamps

Literary usage of Duck hunter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fishing and Shooting Sketches by Grover Cleveland (1906)
"The Serene duck hunter IN the estimation of many people, all those who for any purpose or in any manner hunt ducks are grouped together and indiscriminately ..."

2. California for the Sportsman: Being a Collection of Hints as to the Haunts by Al M. Cumming, Allan Dunn, Southern Pacific Company (1911)
"... the term "duck-hunter" it should be remembered that a vast gulf lies between the "duck-hunter" and the "duck-shooter," the man who knows the habits of ..."

3. The Westward Movement edited by Charles Lester Barstow (1912)
"He accordingly arranged, just before he himself marched in, to send in the captured duck-hunter, conveying a warning to the Indians and the Creoles that he ..."

4. Stories of the Great West by Theodore Roosevelt (1909)
"He accordingly arranged, just before he himself marched in, to send in the captured duck-hunter, conveying a warning to the Indians and the Creoles that he ..."

5. Hero Tales from American History: Or, The Story of Some Americans who Showed by Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (1906)
"He accordingly arranged, just before he himself marched in, to send in the captured duck-hunter, conveying a warning to the Indians and the Creoles that he ..."

6. Western Field by Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.), California Game and Fish Protective Association (1905)
"It goes without saying that the average California duck hunter is a gentleman and a sportsman—but he is also a duck hunter, and in no one other branch of ..."

7. The Tribune Book of Open-air Sports by Ottmar Mergenthaler, Henry Hall (1887)
"The successful duck hunter must know the habits of these different varieties. £ome of them feed in shoal water, tipping up and plucking their fare ..."

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