Gamekeeper
['geɪmkiːpə]
Definition
(noun.) a person employed to take care of game and wildlife.
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Definition
(n.) One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve.
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Examples
- I think you had better, sir,' said the long gamekeeper, 'or you're quite as likely to lodge the charge in yourself as in anything else. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We shall very likely be up with another covey in five minutes,' said the long gamekeeper. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The man in the gamekeeper's dress roughly refused. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The tallest of the two--a stout muscular man in the dress of a gamekeeper--was a stranger to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Not another gamekeeper shot, I hope? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The gamekeeper is not shot: that is settled. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The groom and gamekeeper affirmed to the contrary--both asserting that, if hers was not a clear case of hydrophobia, there was no such disease. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The gamekeepers were more enraged than their lord by my obstinacy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Adrian smiled gently; and after giving his orders to the gamekeepers, he came up to me; putting his arm in mine, we walked together to the mansion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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