verb To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
State Wildlife Management areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt on public lands.
verb To try to find something; search (for).
The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.
verb To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
to hunt down a criminal
verb To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
Did you hunt that pony last week?
verb To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
He hunts the woods, or the country.
verb To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
verb To shift up and down in order regularly.
verb 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.