Definitions for Hunts

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Hunts Hunts

Spelling: [huhnts]

IPA: /hʌnts/

Hunts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in Hunts (hnstu).

Definitions for Hunts

noun

1. Huntingdonshire.
2. an act or practice of hunting game or other wild animals.
3. a search; a seeking or endeavor to find.
4. a pursuit.
5. a group of persons associated for the purpose of hunting; an association of hunters.
6. an area hunted over.
7. Change Ringing. a regularly varying order of permutations in the ringing of a group of from five to twelve bells.

verb (used with object)

1. to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
2. to pursue with force, hostility, etc., in order to capture (often followed by down):
3. to search for; seek; endeavor to obtain or find (often followed by up or out):
4. to search (a place) thoroughly.
5. to scour (an area) in pursuit of game.
6. to use or direct (a horse, hound, etc.) in chasing game.
7. Change Ringing. to alter the place of (a bell) in a hunt.

verb (used without object)

1. to engage in the pursuit, capture, or killing of wild animals for food or in sport.
2. to make a search or quest (often followed by for or after).
3. Change Ringing. to alter the place of a bell in its set according to certain rules.

Origin of Hunts

before 1000; (v.) Middle English hunten, Old English huntian, derivative of hunta hunter, akin to hentan to pursue; (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.

Examples for Hunts

By night, he Hunts with ghosts with goggles and a K2 device.

By the way, there's something to show you—an old maid who Hunts her own harriers.'

SEAL and DELTA Teams usually received top priority in their Hunts for “jackpot” targets and dedicated air surveillance assets.

Drury is also the author of Hunts in Dreams, The Driftless Area, and The Black Brook.

In other circumstances it is a wolf who Hunts with his female.

Do my young men leave the Delawares room on the mountains for their Hunts?

He laughs good-naturedly as he Hunts through the room for his diary.

He goes, comes, Hunts, and retires at the least alarm within his hosts shell.

The Court concluded that the Hunts are actually whaling expeditions, not scientific research as Japan has claimed for many years.

Sen. Jon Tester Hunts, farms, has seven fingers, and could well determine his party's fate in 2012.