gamekeeper betydelse and definition

Exempel på gamekeeper

• Each manor may have only one gamekeeper allowed to kill game such as hare, pheasant, partridge and only for his household's use. 

• He laid his snares accordingly overnight, but they were discovered, and taken away by the gamekeeper of the gentleman to whom the ground belonged. 

• I have already had to intercede for him with the gamekeeper. 

• One day he was fishing with another boy when a gamekeeper suddenly darted forth from a thicket. 

• There are no houses near, and no people in it except a few gamekeepers: I spent long days in it without meeting a human being. 

• The numbers of gamekeepers returned in the decennial censuses is a useful surrogate measure of this.

• References to affrays with poaching colliers frequently appear in the portraits of gamekeepers in this journal.

• There is no accurate data on other estates close to the study area, but cases reported by the gamekeepers were sporadic rather than massive.