seal-hunter

English

Alternative forms

• seal hunter, sealhunter

Noun

seal-hunter (plural seal-hunters)

1. One who hunts seals.
   • 2011, David Grumett, Rachel Muers, Eating and Believing:

     ...who ekes out a living from fishing in the North Sea, or a nomadic tribesman, or an Inuit seal-hunter.

   • 2014, Hinrich Rink, Robert Brown, Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo:

     In this they both succeeded ; and the brother turned out to be an excellent seal-hunter besides.

   • 2016, Mike Hulme, Weathered: Cultures of Climate:

     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).