as in hunters
a person who hunts game
the huntsman presented the king with two pheasants for the royal table
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hunters
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That’s why the two of us — state legislators in Wyoming and Montana — are teaming up to fight for public land access, just as the hunters on Wyoming’s Elk Mountain did.—
Karlee Provenza,
Denver Post,
11 Feb. 2026 -
Unlike many of the birds that Helen and Allan Cruickshank found in the Everglades, the storks had not been decimated by plume hunters decades before because the homely bird’s feathers weren’t prized for ladies' hats.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Huntsmen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/huntsmen. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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