Rabbiting

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A hunt for rabbits.

    "Periodically there are rabbitings here, which usually yield a good result. Then all the normal life of the wood seems to be disturbed, paralysed. Not only the hunted rabbits, but the birds are scared, and go flying wildly in all directions; […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of rabbit form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"“I do not know how it is,” said his brother one day: “when I go out with Robert nutting, he gets all the nuts; and when I go out rabbiting, he gets all the rabbits; and when we go out fishing together, he catches all the fish.”"

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