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seal-hunter en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. One who hunts seals.
    • In this they both succeeded ; and the brother turned out to be an excellent seal-hunter besides. 2014, Hinrich Rink, Robert Brown, Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo:
    • ...who ekes out a living from fishing in the North Sea, or a nomadic tribesman, or an Inuit seal-hunter. 2011, David Grumett, Rachel Muers, Eating and Believing:
    • What people know about their climate is also influenced by the cultures of meaning into which they are born (what an Inuit seal-hunter knows about climate will be different to what a Chinese city-dweller knows) and by the cultures of knowledge practice through which they become disciplined (a climatologist knows climate differently to an anthropologist). 2016, Mike Hulme, Weathered: Cultures of Climate:

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