sealhunter

English

Noun

sealhunter (plural sealhunters)

  1. Alternative form of seal-hunter
    • 1897, A. V. B., Three Indian Tales, page 55:
      He promised his parents that he would watch over him as if he were his own son, and would make a clever whalefisher and sealhunter of him.
    • 1976, Antaeus, page 46:
      In the igloo the Eskimo wife awaits the sealhunter lost on the pack.
    • 1998, Études - Inuit - studies - Volumes 22-23, page 91:
      Non-hunters, for example, comment that it is possible to discuss the situation of sealhunting without being a sealhunter oneself (e.g.; At. 1863; col. 328).
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