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noun
A person who hunts animals for food (for the pot) rather than as sport.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A person who competes solely to win prizes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A person who seeks artifacts for their personal collection or to sell without regard to their cultural importance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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noun
someone who hunts for food (not for sport)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hunter, huntsman
noun
someone who participates in contests in order to collect trophies
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: contestant
noun
a nonprofessional archeologist
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: archeologist, archaeologist
History
From pot + hunter – in hunting sense, “for the (cooking) pot (to eat)”; in the archeology sense, “seeking old pots (to sell)”.
