Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One employed to protect and maintain game birds and other game animals, especially on an estate or game preserve.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who has the keeping and guarding of game; one who is employed to look after animals kept for sport in parks or covers, and to protect them from poachers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person
employed tomaintain thegame forhunting and allassociated materials andeffects . Often shortened tokeeper .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person employed to take care of game and wildlife
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Examples
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i love reading your adventures in england ... you have been hitting my favorite haunts in notting hill and making me very nostalgic ... when we lived there, we let a place in the countryside and I made friends with the gamekeeper from the manor up the road.
Pints, more pints, and an impatient dog.. Michele 2007
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The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him.
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Obeying this order, we found, or rather I found -- for the gamekeeper was a poor hand at reading anything but print -- the following important news:
Treasure Island 1883
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Obeying this order, we found, or rather I found -- for the gamekeeper was a poor hand at reading anything but print -- the following important news:
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Zorillas, Skunks, &c. They are small animals of elongated form, with short legs, commonly expressed as vermiform; where the head of a weasel will go his body will follow -- at least that was my experience in my boyish days, when I was particularly interested in vermin, and the gamekeeper was my first instructor in natural history.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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The gamekeeper is a man in his nineties who claims he'd been bitten by every poisonous animal except a rattlesnake.
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The gamekeeper is a man in his nineties who claims he'd been bitten by every poisonous animal except a rattlesnake.
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Whilst reporting the "shock and dismay" of many at Ratzinger's election, it expressed the hope that the "gamekeeper" would become more of a "pastor".
Alcuin Reid: We are Lucky this Pope is Ecclesiastically Incorrect 2009
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One of their neighbours, Miss Adelaide Boodle, who was given the jocose title of "gamekeeper" when she assumed charge of
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895
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"gamekeeper" of Skerryvore, Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson describes their life at Saranac:
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895
sionnach commented on the word gamekeeper
If you followed a Twitter link here, then it was probably supposed to link to gamekeeper's thumb instead.
April 10, 2009