hunt

Definitions

• (ambitransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
• (ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
• (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
• (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
• (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
• (bell-ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
• (bell-ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly.
• (engineering) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.