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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or practice of hunting for the sake of profit, regardless of the regulations or conventionalities of the sport.

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Examples

  • In Blanding, where "pot-hunting" remains a local pastime, two of the accused have committed suicide as well.

    Raiders of History in Utah 2010

  • This is also, incidentally, why laws are established to prohibit pot-hunting.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Christopher O'Brien 2006

  • This is also, incidentally, why laws are established to prohibit pot-hunting.

    My Advice to Carl Baugh Christopher O'Brien 2006

  • Southwestern Archaeology has links to archaeologists and archaeological sites in Arizona and the Southwest, and an interesting section on "anti-archaeology" devoted to stamping out pot-hunting and questionable archaeological practices.

    Multimedia: What's On Line? 1997

  • Y 'see, being shut off from card-sharping, he was up against it, and so took to pot-hunting to get along.

    The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock 1995

  • Here he gained a precarious livelihood by 'pot-hunting'; for Harris and others of his ilk paid but little attention to the poorly enforced game laws of the section.

    The Statesmen Snowbound Robert Fitzgerald

  • Creed would often have explained to his critics that he did not expect to get into feuds and have neighbours pot-hunting him through his glass windows, that he needed the light from them to study or read, and that his little house was as square as any log hut ever constructed; but they lumped it all together and made an outsider of him -- which hurt.

    Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

  • Greenhow told her that the prospect of having a home of his own was an incentive such as pot-hunting held out to no man.

    Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy

  • While they were on one of these pot-hunting expeditions they dogged up a toenail as big as a dining table, which cheered things up all round.

    Police at the Funeral Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

  • While they were on one of these pot-hunting expeditions they dogged up a toenail as big as a dining table, which cheered things up all round.

    Mystery Mile Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1930

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