Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
steeplechasing .
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Examples
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This, then, I suppose, was steeple-hunting, properly so called -- all this too was for love, at all events, not for money.
Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.
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I have a great respect for bets, -- it is part of an Englishman's character to bet on what he thinks fit, and to prosecute his enquiries over hedge and ditch, as if he were steeple-hunting.
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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Englishman’s character to bet on what he thinks fit, and to prosecute his enquiries over hedge and ditch, as if he were steeple-hunting.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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