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game·keep·er

(gām′kē′pər)

One employed to protect and maintain game birds and other game animals, especially on an estate or game preserve.

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gamekeeper

(ˈɡeɪmˌkiːpə)

a person employed to take care of game and wildlife, as on an estate

ˈgameˌkeeping n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

game•keep•er

(ˈgeɪmˌki pər)

n.

a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide for the conservation of game.

[1660–70]

game′keep`ing, n.

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Noun

gamekeeper - a person employed to take care of game and wildlife

game warden

custodian, keeper, steward - one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals

warrener - maintains a rabbit warren

Translations

خَفير الصَّيْد

hajný

jagtbetjent

veiîivörîur

hájnik

avlak bekçisi

猎场看守人

gamekeeper

[ˈgeɪmˌkiːpəʳ] N → guardabosques mf inv, guardabosque mf

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

gamekeeper

[ˈgeɪmkiːpə^r] n → garde-chasse m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

gamekeeper

[ˈgeɪmˌkiːpəʳ] n → guardacaccia m inv

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

game

(geim) noun

1. an enjoyable activity, which eg children play. a game of pretending.

2. a competitive form of activity, with rules. Football, tennis and chess are games.

3. a match or part of a match. a game of tennis; winning (by) three games to one.

4. (the flesh of) certain birds and animals which are killed for sport. He's very fond of game; (also adjective) a game bird.

adjective

brave; willing; ready. a game old guy; game for anything.

ˈgamely adverb

courageously.

games noun plural

an athletic competition, sometimes with other sports. the Olympic Games.

ˈgamekeeper noun

a person who looks after game.

game point

a winning point.

game reserve

an area of land set aside for the protection of animals.

game warden

a person who looks after a game reserve or, in the United States, game.

the game is up

the plan or trick has failed or has been found out.

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A word or two concerning a squire, and more relating to a gamekeeper and a schoolmaster.

This friend was the gamekeeper, a fellow of a loose kind of disposition, and who was thought not to entertain much stricter notions concerning the difference of meum and tuum than the young gentleman himself.

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Trundle, with Sam Weller on the box beside the driver, pulled up by a gate at the roadside, before which stood a tall, raw-boned gamekeeper, and a half-booted, leather-legginged boy, each bearing a bag of capacious dimensions, and accompanied by a brace of pointers.

The tall gamekeeper replied in the affirmative, and looked with some surprise from Mr.

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The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take charge of his practice; the squire was hard at work at Bristol; and I lived on at the hall under the charge of old Redruth, the gamekeeper, almost a prisoner, but full of sea-dreams and the most charming anticipations of strange islands and adventures.

Livesey, with this addition, "To be opened, in the case of his absence, by Tom Redruth or young Hawkins." Obeying this order, we found, or rather I found--for the gamekeeper was a poor hand at reading anything but print--the following important news:

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'Take care of it,' said he, 'and don't let it go near the rabbit-warren, for the gamekeeper swears he'll shoot it if he sees it there again: he would have done so to-day, if I had not been in time to stop him.

'I'm feared o' th' gamekeepers,' said she: 'that's all

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His companion, the tall man in the gamekeeper's clothes, sprang to my right side, and the next moment the two scoundrels held me pinioned between them in the middle of the road.

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If they did get the dog of a strange poacher, no gamekeeper or constable could identify 'm by the dog-- mum was the word."

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Bertram, first in a letter to the gamekeeper and then in a letter to Edmund; and by the end of August he arrived himself, to be gay, agreeable, and gallant again as occasion served, or Miss Crawford demanded; to tell of races and Weymouth, and parties and friends, to which she might have listened six weeks before with some interest, and altogether to give her the fullest conviction, by the power of actual comparison, of her preferring his younger brother.

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The roulette-ball was not even spinning, and the gamekeeper stood by the roaring, red-hot stove, talking with the young, dark-eyed woman, comely of face and figure, who was known from Juneau to Fort Yukon as the Virgin.