Hunting

Hunting
This surname of Anglo-Saxon origin, and recorded in the spellings of Hunt, Hunter, and Hunting, was originally an occupational surname for a hunter. Derived from the Olde English pre 7th Century word "hunta" and the verb "huntian", the word was probably specific for an official hunter, since anybody who took it upon themselves to hunt game, be they humble pidgeons for the pot or poachers in search of saleable animals, would soon have found themselves in the stocks or worse. So our 'Hunter' is likely to have been either a member of the hunt or a hunt servant since hunting as a sport was an activity restricted to the ranks of the nobility. There are some ndications that the word "hunting" was used as a personal name, as in the placename "Huntingdon" and "Huntingfield", which mean "Hunta's peoples Hill" and "the land of Hunta's people". The earliest recordings include Geoffrey Hunthing of Leicester in 1209, and Roger Hunting in the 1275 Hundred Rolls of Kent, Leonard Hunt was an early emigrant to the New World, leaving London on the "Mathew" in May 1635, bound for St. Christopher's in the Barbados. Among the several notable namebearers listed in the "Dictionary of National Biography" is James Henry Leigh Hunt, (1784 - 1859), essayist and poet, who introduced Keats and Shelley to the public in the "Examiner" (1816), and published "Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries" (1828). A Coat of Arms granted to the Hunt family of Derbyshire in the reign of Henry V111 is a silver shield with a black buglehorn, stringed green, on a red chief three mullets pierced of the field. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Humphrey le Hunte, which was dated 1203, in the "Records of Fines of Sussex", during the reign of King John, known as "Lackland", 1199 - 1216. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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  • HUNTING — (Heb. צוד, hunt ; צַיִד, hunting, game ; צַיָּד, hunter ; מְצוֹדָה ,מָצוֹד, hunting implement, net ). Biblical Period In the earliest periods of human history, hunting was an essential means of procuring food, clothing, and tools. In biblical… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Hunting — Hunt ing, n. The pursuit of game or of wild animals. A. Smith. [1913 Webster] {Happy hunting grounds}, the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Hunting —     Canons on Hunting     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Canons on Hunting     From early times, hunting, in one form or another has been forbidden to clerics. Thus, in the Corpus Juris Canonici (C. ii, X, De cleric. venat.) we read: We forbid to all… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Hunting — Hunting …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • hunting — HÚNTING s.n. Piele pentru încălţăminte asemănătoare cu antilopa. [pron. hán ting. / < engl. hunting]. Trimis de LauraGellner, 21.04.2005. Sursa: DN  HUNTING [HÁNTING] s. n. piele pentru încălţăminte, asemănătoare cu antilopa. (< engl.… …   Dicționar Român

  • Hunting — País …   Wikipedia Español

  • hunting — [hunt′iŋ] n. [ME < OE huntung] 1. the act of a person or animal that hunts 2. a periodic oscillation of the rotor of a synchronous electrical machine about its average position 3. a periodic oscillation in the controlled function of any… …   English World dictionary

  • Hunting — Hunter redirects here. For other uses, see Hunter (disambiguation). For other uses, see Hunting (disambiguation). Boar hunting, tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis (14th century) Hunting is the practice of pursuing any l …   Wikipedia

  • hunting — /hun ting/, n. 1. the act of a person, animal, or thing that hunts. 2. Elect. the periodic oscillating of a rotating electromechanical system about a mean space position, as in a synchronous motor. adj. 3. of, for, engaged in, or used while… …   Universalium

  • hunting —    Spain, widely regarded as the hunting reserve of Europe, has more land area devoted to hunting than any other EU country, provides more than 20,000 permanent jobs in gamekeeping alone, and employs around two million temporary workers during… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture

  • hunting — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big game, deer, fox (usually fox hunting), etc. ▪ He was killed by a lion while big game hunting in Africa. ▪ commercial …   Collocations dictionary

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